I have this urgw to write fanfiction, but I know it will only end badly. Convince me why I should not.
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Anonymous2009-04-26 16:15
Do it. At least you'll learn to write.
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Anonymous2009-04-26 16:26
what is the fanfiction of
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Anonymous2009-04-26 17:46
X-Men
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Anonymous2009-04-26 18:31
>>2
That.
Just don't publish it under any remotely recognizable name, if at all - but that should be common sense.
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Anonymous2009-04-26 19:18
I can write well, but I believe the ideas are worthless if they don't count since they won't be published.
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Anonymous2009-04-26 20:05
Still you will be refining your skills, and you may come up with dialog and ideas that you may be able to use in your own work later. But you wanted to be discouraged from writing it, didn't you? Okay.
Don't do it.
It won't be the real story. It will only be a story of a story. People have enough stress following the official story, why would they dedicate so much effort to caring about a story that doesn't affect the official story? Fanfiction seems like masturbation. There are so many better things I could be doing with my time if I just put more effort in it.
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Anonymous2009-04-27 18:19
Real story? Official? That's the perspective of a businessman. A writer is an artist. Your work would be no less valid artistically, and who knows, it may even be commercially useful at some point.
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Anonymous2009-04-29 18:17
Hey, if you're writing a fan-fiction for X-Men, you could get published. I mean, isn't that sort of what most mainstream comics are about: using familiar characters and putting them into new situations? From a skewed point of view, you could say that mainstream comics are canonized fan-fiction.
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Anonymous2009-04-29 23:33
Well there's also the thought of writing in someone else's world. Using someone else's characters. Just sticking words in relationships and stories already built. Trying to write in someone else's voice. Sound incredibly unartistic.
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Anonymous2009-04-30 16:25
>>12 Just sticking words in relationships and stories already built. Trying to write in someone else's voice.
Why would you do that?
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Anonymous2009-05-01 19:42
Hunter S Thompson used to type out entire books by other people before he began writing his own. He claimed it helped him learn how writing a book worked.