[ SECRET POST #2623 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2623 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I've seen authors with wonderful fanfic, but then they file off the serial numbers and it makes bad original fiction. I think with fanfic, there's kind of a shorthand to characters and setting, with in-jokes and deconstructions that you can appreciate because you see it. And then it becomes original, there's none of that behind it, and it's world seems more shallow.

[(Anonymous)]

I will freely admit to doing a filing-off-the-serial numbers thing--more than once, even. And you are absolutely right that it has several pitfalls. The best way to do it (IMO) is to take the ideas and tropes from the works you love and then put your own spin on them. That way, you at least have plausible deniability.

[blueonblue]

With fanfic, you are writing for readers who are already interested in the characters and the world. With original stories, you have to get them interested.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh that shallow feeling is the worst. And if it does work well as an original work, it probably wasn't a very good fanfic. The pleasure of good fanfic is how it interacts with canon!
I read an adapted-fanfic last week, the first one I've read that I enjoyed, and it's hard for me to imagine how it was ever related to canon besides the most basic character relationships.