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Post by dreamland0516 on Feb 14, 2023 16:14:44 GMT
Anyone get there start in fan fiction? Have an old favorite you wrote a long time ago you want to share? Have a beef with with fan fiction forums to complain about?
Talk about it here. Considering how it helped me cut my teeth as a writer I think its often overlooked and is worth chatting about.
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Post by dreamland0516 on Feb 14, 2023 16:16:19 GMT
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Post by roseblack on Feb 14, 2023 16:33:24 GMT
I haven't written fan fiction in years, but I have written a few short stories with the characters from my books in typical fan-fiction style (I have a coffee house au for the cave diving WIP) and I've found it helpful for making sure I know the characters inside out.
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Post by Meredith on Feb 14, 2023 19:25:18 GMT
I never wrote fan fiction though I would often come up with ideas for fanfiction for media I liked. I never wrote anything until it was my own characters. I do notice a lot of writers nowadays will mention writing fanfics in their biographies and such (I remember seeing that Marissa Meyer I think wrote Sailor Moon fanfiction which you could still find online). I’m glad it no longer has the stigma it once had.
I also come up with fanfiction like scenarios for my characters sometimes, though I haven’t tried writing them yet.
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Post by dreamland0516 on Feb 14, 2023 20:25:30 GMT
Lol now I am curious what "fan fiction situations" you both mean. Like super cheesy implausible romance?
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Post by Meredith on Feb 14, 2023 20:50:08 GMT
Lol now I am curious what "fan fiction situations" you both mean. Like super cheesy implausible romance? Sometimes it’s the sort of things that don’t belong in a book because it would kind of slow things too much or be off genre. And sometimes I think of wildly improbable things, like what would happen if a major character died. Sometimes these will end up in the story but it’s kind of like brainstorming? It can be character exploration if it doesn’t end up in the story. It’s more of the sort of things my brain comes up with when I get bored and I’m not actively writing. So I guess it is sometimes cheesy romance and sometimes implausible, but not usually at the same time? |
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Post by dreamland0516 on Feb 14, 2023 20:52:54 GMT
Oh that makes sense. I'm trying to think if I have ever fan-fic-ed my own books.
To al large extent I guess String Theory did . . . since it has two different versions.
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Post by roseblack on Feb 14, 2023 21:03:46 GMT
I did a modern version of Bard so I could have a christmas story, and the coffee house was just a very silly short story
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Post by waxesnostalgic on Feb 15, 2023 1:10:51 GMT
I've tried to read fan fiction before, but I never really liked it. I did write a fan fiction that was sort of comedy/parody once, but what I've attempted to write never turned out well either. I've always preferred to work with my own characters--I think it's because I don't like being constrained by someone else's worldbuilding and characterization. I do like to ponder different routes an ongoing (serial) story might take sometimes, so I guess that might be considered fan fiction too?
I do speculate about different endings for my own stories, which sometimes veer into fan fiction-y territory, but I think that's just an aspect of brainstorming. One of my (unwritten) stories kind of branched off from Poppy and Immortelle, but it's more of a thematic sibling of the story rather than a continuation with the same characters. I think I wanted to explore some ideas that didn't make it into that book, so I just made new characters to do it.
Similarly I have been dissatisfied that a work of fiction I read and enjoyed didn't explore X aspect of something, so I might come up with an idea that does. I think a lot of my stories have this kind of inspiration. I don't know how common that is for other writers...
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Post by dreamland0516 on Mar 2, 2023 3:12:28 GMT
There are certain fandoms though, where the world is fairly limited and you don't have to be constrained at all. You can just . . do whatever you want and add to the world.
Or there are fandoms like Star Wars where the potential is limitless.
Really - playing Dungeons and Dragons is just fan fiction with dice lol
Although, since I was thinking of writing one I read some fan fiction recently and . . . . blech. So yeah, I remember why it has the reputation lol
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