[ SECRET POST #6313 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6313 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, idk, I feel like it's less creativity, more making the rest of it high quality enough that other people give a fuck? Like, I think more people are able come up with characters and ideas that would be interesting in the right hands than to write the kinda story that actually gets people invested who weren't already, if that makes sense.

[(Anonymous)]

I think some writers are capable of this, but it's a different animal.

There are plenty of pro writers who are paid to write episodic television or films with preexisting characters who are also excellent writers, though.

[feotakahari]

I was gonna bring up episode writers too. I don’t think a Star Trek scriptwriter is inherently more “creative” than a fanfic writer.

[azurelunatic]

The fanfic writer to script/novel writer pipeline gave me so much joy in my early Trek fandom days.

It's a different kind of creative muscle, yeah. I respect the hell out of ghostwriters, who not only have to work within the bounds of the existing character/series, but also have to match the original author's style well enough to not alienate the fan base.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd go further and say that along with fic writers there's plenty of published writers who can't do this either. Creating a world and characters that people are going to be interested in and love is fucking hard, I always tip my hat to those that manage it because the biggest hurdle when it comes to original stuff is: getting readers to give a shit.

[(Anonymous)]

In general I agree, but IMO this has become less true over time as traditional publishing companies winnowed down their editing (to save money), and then realized that a lot of readers don't care enough about sloppy, generic world building and it doesn't affect book sales.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

Ive read a few published works by fic writers and I was kind of shocked at how bad they were, since I loved all their fic. I never really thought about how little world building and actual character work fanfic just hands to the aithor.

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, there are many printed and officially published original fiction that barely meet that qualification of originality.

[(Anonymous)]

There are times where I agree with the OP here! One opinion I’ve encountered in certain corners (certainly not everywhere) is that fanfiction is the only kind of writing where you can get any kind of queer representation at all (outside of a few select TV shows like Heartstopper) and it feels like… such a weird opinion? Like I stick mostly to reading contemporary realistic YA fiction and there are an abundance of queer writers with publishing deals, and usually more queer characters of color, too. Not as much as there should be, yet. But still a decent amount!

(And… don’t kill me I’m just going to whisper this… I like a lot of the writing in published queer lit better than I do in fanfic lately. SHH. Don’t tell.)

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, you need a slightly different skill set to successfully play in someone else's sandbox than you do if you're creating from the ground up, but a lot of writers... do both?

Like, even without bringing up the godawful original works out there, trad pub or otherwise, a lot of writers do both!