[ SECRET POST #1463 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1463 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07pages, 162 secrets from Secret Submission Post #209.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

01. http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/tasmatPB/fanficdoingitwrong.jpg

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's doing it wrong.

With original fiction you are the source and don't have to worry about interpreting the canon incorrectly, after all.

[masked-creator.livejournal.com]

Came here to say this! Original fiction and fanfiction can both be tricky to write in their own ways.

[iambic5.livejournal.com]

^ This. I'm way more comfortable writing original fic, or even writing OCs in fanfic, than I am writing straight-up fanfic. For basically the exact reason you just said.

[box-life.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Writing original stuff and fanfiction each have their own challenges. When you can't remember some detail in your original work you can make something up instead of someone calling you on forgetting some detail on page 93 or whatever.

[robintheshrew.livejournal.com]

And also, with fan fiction, you're more likely to have a lot of readers. That's stressful

[kotori99.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I prefer writing original stories and find it so much easier for this reason.

[sammet.livejournal.com]

I don't really write much fanfiction, but on occasion. Any way; I feel the same way! Original fiction is something only you know about. Your interpretations of characters etc. are your own and therefor correct. When I write fiction, I hate interpreting the characters in a way that will irk other people, as some fics irk me. ._.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I find fanfic much more intimidating too--than OF or tie-ins.

[nihilistnailz.livejournal.com]

as someone who writes both original and fan fiction, no, you're not doing it wrong, anon.
with fanfic there's always a paranoia that you're not writing the characters in-character, you're missing canon events, etc. with original fic, there's none of that. c:

[thememusicc.livejournal.com]

I'd rather write original fiction than fanfiction, but not really for the reasons in the OP.

And it's not because there's a supposed social stigma about writing fanfiction; I've read plenty of web originals that are pretty much fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off.

I think it's mostly that in a lot of cases I like the setting more than the characters, so if I did write something it would be either expanding on those characters or making new ones whole cloth, and at that point, why not just write original fiction? Or make a tabletop out of it.

[spiderstars.livejournal.com]

This doesn't sound weird to me; I find fanfic a lot more intimidating, mostly because you have to keep all the details about the world and the characters straight. That's hard, especially if you're writing fic about a TV show or a long running book series, with a lot of details and characterization. With original stuff you have to do the same but since you wrote the story it's easier to remember them. Your characters are yours and they can evolve naturally, rather than trying to fit what you want to do with the characters into predefined roles, as fanfic demands. So yeah. Don't sweat it. It's not weird or doing it wrong or anything like that.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

You don't have to worry about fandom politics with original fic.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Tell that to Elizabeth Bear.

[kallanda-lee.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would happen. With original fic you get carte blanche, while with fanfic you have to make sure to stay in characters, be true to the original writer's intentions (well, ideally)

[andromeda-2.livejournal.com]

I find it kinda intimidating to write both =/ with fanfic, I'm afraid that I'll get the characters and/or the world "wrong" somehow - with original fiction, I'd be afraid that I would get the themes I would like to explore completely wrong, or that I will write my characters like epic mary-sues or unfortunate stereotypes, etc.

[tehsongsong.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that that picture is adorable. I dawww'd for quite a while at it. |D

But yes, as everyone has said, both fanfiction and original work have their own trials and tribulations. For me it depends on what fandom I am writing in, but ideas always spring up faster in my main fandom (Jak and Daxter) than when I develop my own stories.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm with you OP. I know I shouldn't, but for reason I can't help but to look down on fanfiction. It's like a part of fandom that I think less of, even though I now read my fair share of it. I've even had a few good fanfic ideas, but I just can't bring myself to write them because I'd feel ashamed of it.

[mutantjules.livejournal.com]

DUDE I AM EXACTLY THE SAME WAY

I'm always like "what if I get the characters wrong?!!!" I feel so stupid but I cannot shake that feeling I will fuck their voices up.

[(Anonymous)]

That picture!

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[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

It's CARDBO!

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[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

Box-kun why so precious

[wing-of-grey.livejournal.com]

Me too, OP. For me, it's a combination of concern that I'm getting the characters horribly, horribly wrong and embarrassment that I'm writing fanfic at all. Even though I've read and written fanfic for years, and really should be over that by now.

[liyosa.livejournal.com]

Are you me?

[trojanphoenix.livejournal.com]

I can completely sympathise, I've been writing original fiction since I was eight or so, didn't write any fanfic until I was already in my twenties.