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Elf474
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So who here has written any fan fics?
Personally I've written several hundred. No I'm not exagerating. Right now I've got close to 70 on fanfiction.net alone. Not to mention my old Tenchi Fics on tmffa and the stuff I put on adultfanfiction.net My personal favorite thing to do is still MSTs (For those who don't know, look up Mystery Science Theater 3000). All under Clayton Overstreet of course. I usually don't bother with fake names. It's just here Clayton was taken. And sometimes I look back on stories I wrote years ago and cringe. Man my writing style has evolved over the years. A lot of my older fics qualify for the "what the hell was I thinking" pile. No matter how much positive fan mail I got about them. Basically fan fiction is a way for people to make the story go the way they want it to. You want a specific couple together? You want to kill off a character? Heck you can slap a favorite character into another anime entirely if you want. Literally there are no limits, except possibly in posting hentai. So who here has Ye Olde God Complex and writes fan fiction? |
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Bob_The_Fish
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I haven't but I have tried my hand at writing fiction in general. It's very, very hard. I've also dabbled in editing on fanfiction pieces for some authors, though not much had ever come from it.
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Keonyn
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I've worked on fiction of my own, but never anything even close the being publishable. It's a goal of mine to someday reach that point, but I still have some career goals to work on before I consider a less stable and less lucrative part-time pursuit like writing.
I haven't really touch fan fiction because I just don't enjoy making stories for another writers work. Whether they're a writer of novels, screenplays, manga or whatever, it's their world and their work and I don't want to try to recreate it to an image of my own choosing. I have a good imagination and decent skills in compiling a workable and flowing outline, I see no reason to latch on to the work of someone else when I can easily come up with something original (or as close to original as one can expect to get these days, since if you write a story chances are someone could find some others similar if the dug deep enough, whether you knew of them or not). |
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8511 Location: Penguinopolis |
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I've written some (mostly unfinished) fanfiction, way back in the dawn of my anime fandom. Hell, I wrote a Pokemon fanfic. A self-insert one. Where I owned a Mew. Yeah, that bad. I wrote two Tenchi Muyo fanfics, one of which shipped Kiyone and Mihoshi. No lemon, sorry.
I'm pretty glad to be out of that phase. I used them as writing excercises, but at this point in my life, I'd rather be writing original work and getting it published. In fact, it's what I'm working on right now. Very slowly. |
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egoist
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It's funny because I read your post before, but it didn't come to my head.
Unlike you, who's been doing it for fun and self improvement, I've had the same story in my head for many years. Probably improving my skills at writing would be best, but I think that it would spoil my story, or most likely, bring an end to the reason to keep evolving the story. I want to think it over and over again, until I'm finally able to write a complete story. My goal is simple, all I want is a complete story, not published, with no money involved. This is probably something I consider a dream. |
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Bob_The_Fish
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writing something of your own is extremely hard, and much harder than doing something with preexisting characters and a preexisting world setup.
Having said that, it's not to downplay the difficulty in writing a GOOD fanfiction, which I imagine is difficult enough. I never seem to get very far with my own works, though those that have read what I have shown have often praised them. I'm a much better editor than I am a writer, and often that impedes me from making any real progress with my work! Another pitfall is not having a well organized plot thread. I know a beginning and possibly an end, but getting from point A to point B is difficult, and even more difficult to keep it entertaining and at a constant pace. The other issue is with what I want to say. Often I have a fantastic top notch concept, a fantastic world set up, but no idea as to why anyone should care about what I am saying. I lack a direct message in my writings. It's all very difficult. It's much easier to point out problems in someone else's work and give solutions. |
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Kruszer
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I never bother with it. Sure I could write something, and it would probabally be good, but it would always be "fan fiction" and never something official or canon that actually happened and thus ultimately pointless producing little to no return for me.
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Blood-
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Nope, I've never written any fanfic. I've never had the urge, but I suppose that could change. I can't even think of a series right now that I would like to try my hand at. If I ever did get the urge, it would probably be with a series that I really loved that I found too brief. Sort of embarrassing to admit this, but a few years ago after I re-watched "My So-Called Life" on DVD, I came close to trying my hand at one of those scripts because the show was cut off much too early.
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Ktimene's Lover
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I wrote some Monster Rancher fanfics 9 years ago. It was centered on Holly and Genki romance.
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Veers
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I sort of have.
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Ktimene's Lover
Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Yumi Touma did a fanfic of Oh! My Goddess and it was published. I wish I had the nod from a creator to do something like this.
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Veers
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Ktimene's Lover
Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Yes, but I want the nod from the official publishers here or in Japan.
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Elf474
Posts: 100 Location: Behind You |
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Actually I also do it because if I don't it just stays in my head and soon I've got like 30 or 40 stories in there and can't think straight. Writing them down and puting them online helps me get them out of there and into other people's minds. The ego stroking fanmail is fun too. |
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Truered
 Posts: 515 Location: Uni |
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I've delved into the world of writing fanfics a few times. My first attempt was a terrible formatted piece of crap which fortunately is lost to the ages as I forget how to get onto the account, and it only lasted one chapter.
I've always had a love of writing, but I've found over the last eight or so years any attempt at "original" fiction tends to end with a storyline outline (or once or twice thinking it's going nowhere after 20 pages). However with most fanfics, knowing there are people reading it helps to keep me going. I take the Answerman approach of instead of trying a novel/manga etc I just sit down and write 
However it is of course my secret shame. Never told any of my family of it, and so far I have only shown it to two people online. When in the right mood it can be fun to sit down and write but recently I've found getting in that mood to be rarer and rarer. Luckily the only self insert was a parody of a self insert character Of course there is the slight problem that one story I'm currently in the process of writing I find to be very embarrassing. At this moment in time I think my longest fanfic was just over 70000 words and exactly 50 chapters. With the exception of one other story I'm never aiming for that amount again 
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