Fanfiction, i guess

why haven't you finished writing that fanfiction, Sup Forums?

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I write my own stories, not derivative trash based on someone else's work

Any time I write something I immediately get self-conscious, think it's cringey and delete it
I know if I write enough I'll eventually get over that feeling, though

Never give up, anons, just cross that next hurdle and keep running

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I wrote short Devil May Cry fanfic once. Maybe like 15 years ago. It was m-maximum cringe. People loved it.
Now I grew up and write my own stories.

Why haven't you finished that novel, then?

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yeah but that HARD!

and actually i got a bit of a taste of that, my latest fanfic, that i am just trying to finish up now after like 3 fucking months was using abominations so i had to impose my own characterizations on them, so i had to make my own character, more or less. and that shit is really hard to make them not shit.

but i am finally almost done with it, i just need to finish up the transitional scenes and get it cleaned up, but cant get motivated to work on it...even though that what i should be doing right now

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>be me
>look at my AO3 page
>50 works
>mfw
i was looking through some of the ones i did a couple years ago, and one of the ones i did with the intent of being super edge was pretty fucking cringe.

but, on the whole all of my stories have gotten an overwhelmingly postive feedback, although its not like that matters, considering the autdience

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>trying to write fanfiction about a comic run that I haven't read in at least two years
>too lazy to read it again but still want characters to be in character
>constantly get writer's block, writing transitions from one place to another and writing time progressing is difficult for me
>constantly getting embarrassed and deleting things

>working on a second one
>fapfic involving a crackship (characters are still in the same universe though)
>constantly get off put by the amount of effort it's taking to get them in a plausible enough scenario to fuck while not trying to make one of them too OOC

I'm doing an absolute shit job of trying to finish these but I will persevere, anons!

I have no confidence in my dialogue. It always stops me.

Just finished a 5 chapter, 42k word short story about the Teen Titans. By finished I mean I had no ending planned and reached a good point for """Hiatus."""

Currently outlining other fics. Gonna try to break into the Voltron LD fandom. Gonna start out with smut one-shots of course and then do some longer non-smut shit.
Trying to get my creative writing chops back before I put my current original concept into a proper outline and then rough draft.

Don't let the 'muh own stories' fags get you down. Fanfics are mostly trash, we all know it, but any characters/setting/plot can be used to fine tune your writing. In classical art students used to copy the masters thousands of times before they were considered ready to make their own work. Now, Voltron ain't exactly Michelangelo, but don't be afraid to use fandoms you like as your writing weightroom.

Or don't be afraid to just write derivative trash just because that's what you feel like. Go nuts.

Because I'm writing other (mostly original) short stories before the next chapter

It gets too long and too full of irrelevant backstory that, to me, still feels integral to the plot. I mean, I like to write, but EVERYthing I write faces this problem.
For example, I wanted to do a Loud House CYOA where Lynn gets stuck at home with a broken leg while the rest of the family goes on a week long ski trip. user is called in as a caretaker, and ends up being an emotional sponge for Lynn as the whole situation makes her reflect on whether she's too much of a bother for her family, how her family tried really hard to get her to go on the trip with them, but she chose not to, believing that they would have had less fun if they had dragged her along. user could then choose to comfort her, fuck her, or turn her into a Sith Lord.
I stopped trying to write this because every time I tried, I would end up with a two-page long backstory of how user knows the Louds, and why the adults would ever trust him taking care of their kids. He would be a nurse at an ER, and would regularly chat with Rita (dental assistant), as many dental emergencies would end up being emergency room visits, and the two would become friends through work, which of course would lead to user being invited to family parties and such, and eventually being considered "Uncle user". Again, this has very little to do with the core of the story, but I'm too autistic to leave such details unexplained.
I've suffered writer's block for over a year, with this and various other stories (fanfics and original stuff), but goddamn if I don't type out a lot of crap that never sees another person's eyes.

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This. My nitpicky autism and need to fill in a bunch of unnecessary details is ruining my fics too.

>tfw was trying to write a small oneshot about Cable and Deadpool and ended up backreading dozens of Cable/X Force comics just for the sake of "not making him OOC" even though my entire audience probably doesn't give a shit about Cable outside of Cable & Deadpool and even though I hate most of the original X Force comics
>didn't even end up fucking finishing it

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that kind of backstory only seem necessary if you are doing a serious prose story. anything that ins't, anything with 'user, any greentext, anything that is explicitly porn, doesn't need that kind of explanation

You're the opposite of me. Dialogue is the only thing I'm confident with and the in between is what I have the hardest time with. It almost always ends up sounding samey and dull.

So why isn't there a Sup Forums writer's group?

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There are threads on occasion, they'll usually stick around for a few weeks then go away for a few, then come back, and so on

>Be me
>Be writing fapfiction
>Decide to take a break, check Sup Forums
>See this thread
>Get shamed into going back to writing
Thanks user, I needed that.

That's hardly helpful. Why not a discord?

Because discord is cancer and for circlejerks

Because writing a Game of thrones/stand still stay silent crossover got a lot more complex than anticipated.

It's just a website. The cancer are the people.

it sure is...

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Since mods delete writethreads outside of /trash/.

They haven't been in the past couple weeks. Not sure what changed but it's a nice change of pace.

>Recently been rewriting shit from my teen years as an experiment.
>All of it is strictly original except for a banger of a OC X-Men fanfic with romance
I'm going to.

It was real bad.

It’s odd actually. I started writing one. After the third chapter felt too different, I made it a one shot and rewrote the third chapter. Then when I got to chapter 5, I happened to buy an iPad Smart Keyboard(applefag all you want, I use the iPad at work all day and my pc at home). I wrote a one shot as a test of the keyboard and that oddly became more popular than the story I was actually invested in. Getting more comments and hits than all 5 chapters combined. So I decided to turn the oneshot into a story and charted out a plot. I went back and forward until I finished the original story. Since then I haven’t put out the fifth chapter of the second story. It’s 25% written, but I started writing my own scripts with original characters and I can’t seem to find inspiration to pick the fanfic back up.

What do I do?

Sounds like you're doing fine to me

I know the feeling. I often think that fanfic readers are too afraid to be honest. That or they really don’t see why your fic is bad.
I got one feedback that “one of the best fanfics I’ve ever read.” And another that said “The quality is so high, I have a hard time believing this was written on the fly.” Which I had said it was in the beginning. They were flattering, but I know they are too nice for what I actually wrote

First off its a script so fuck you, secondly I've had a lot of family emergencies that keep me busy.

How long are your chapters? I try to make them around 5k words just so the reader doesn’t get drowned with a wall of text if they have to look away for a bit. Plus, that length is easy to write in bursts. I am also a strong advocate for using the chapter break for a minor time skip. It’s obviously a cop out, but I like being able to end a situation as early as possible with a chapter end and then begin in the middle of a new situation a few hours or days later

Give it time, they'll be cunts about it.

its not that, my problem with all the praise is the fact that i just automatically assume its from 13-17 year olds who have no idea what quality is. so yeah they will say your shit is really good, but they think terrible shit is acceptable, so their opinion doesn't mean anything.

its to the point where i only really think other writer's or 'verified' readers(people who have read alot of shit) opinions matter, and can be trusted

I've written one "What would Captain Marvel in the MCU look like?" fic, and one quick one-shot about Black Widow and Winter Soldier. I usually write Doctor Who stuff, but I should dip into Marvel stuff more so.

I’m like this to such an extent that I avoid all OCs whenever possible. Loud House in particular is easy because there’s a ton of characters in the principe cast and enough side characters to fill most situations.

Not him, but I agree with you on that length. I am currently aiming for around 6k a chapter.

>why haven't you finished writing that fanfiction, Sup Forums?

Because there was money in disguising it as a standalone piece by changing all the names.

Yeah. I’m not in a terrible spot. I commissioned an artist to do character art based off my horribly drawn designs and an animator to thumbnail and then animate the whole thing. With any luck, I can get a pilot made out of my 7 page script. But it’s still going through dialog revisions.
On top of the secondary script I’m writing, I actually drafted a concept for a third original story that I may develop

But I did enjoy writing the fanfic and I want to finish it for the people that liked it. But for it to be finished, I need at least 3 more chapters worth of content according to my outline. Just need the time away from my original projects

Any thing you wrote is derivative. The only difference is your original characters suck ass

Because I like writing at my own pace, and I rather write when I know it'll be either fun for me or at least good for my book.
Also why haven't you finished that BA?

Hi, me.

>read up on historical details like pet ownership, climate and relevant wars because i want the story to be authentic
>drop the first point completely at the first pass because the dog was a shit bit of the plot anyway
>the 3 chapters i've already written are shelved for the moment

Not fanfic related. But similar.
for an original work is as doing, I wanted a real world setting. So I spent literal weeks looking at every single town and city in the United States to find the perfect place that had absolutely everything my story needed(a big problem when you write the concept before having a location) once I found the only place that fit the description, I dropped it. So I just have a huge document with all this info set in an obscure town that very few people have heard of, and it’s just taking up virtual space.

Why don’t you all name drop your fanfics and describe them.

Or are you all afraid?

Because I don't know how to translate my sexual fantasies to literature

What’s your fantasy?

I’m a terrible writer

What pace is that, user? How many chapters have you written this year?

The real question is why haven't I posted. I finished one two years ago and I've never bothered to post the damn thing.

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Clever

Yeah that TT fic was me being super self-indulgent. Kind of a treat yoself fic. Chapter 4 was 13k words alone. It was terribly unprofessional but I didn't give a single fuck. Felt good.

But yeah, when I'm planning things out I try to keep it between 2.5k and 4k. It's difficult sometimes but putting limits on yourself not only makes your story more accessible, it makes you really examine how you're telling it. It forces you think in depth about how to present what's happening.

Too scared I guess? First of all I’ve been told that my writing is shit and great as well. My only writing experience is from roleplaying that I never got past 10 replies. When people say that they loved my reply I get scared and cannot write any more because it won’t be as good as the first. Once or twice people even made fun of my writing. Maybe I should move to fanfiction because it pisses me off that I can’t have a character being a dick without my partner thinking I am insulting them.

Wouldn’t your partner know you’re just in character? Sounds like shitty rp to me

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Good luck nigga :D

Thanks. I’m really going all out with this.

Right? They should. I’ve been pretty unlucky that lately I’ve been even toning down characters who should definitely not be toned down. Wait I was wrong about never getting past 10 replies. I got 100+ once thanks to a diamond in the rough partner. I guess I am looking for that same experience. I should really be moving to fanfiction and eventually original works though.

>mfw I wrote a greentext spanning over 50 dedicated threads on /mlp/ but never finished it.
I'd post a link but you fucks wouldn't be interested in a love story about a yellow woman who loves it up the ass.

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What does MLP have to do with Asian anal?

Hey now, mods just recently stopped deleting anything fic related. Let's not tempt fate with smol horse discussion.

I'm a bit scarred.

I usually set my stuff in a real world setting with some fantastic element desu and I usually do worldbuilding as I write, though if that expresses itself as something that happens right then or as something I write down for later reference is a whole other thing.

To corral my own nitpickyness I usually keep the main locales vague in my original works unless the specific real world location is important to the story. The idea of the location like somewhere vaguely Texas or New Zealand is more important to me. I get a bit of artistic freedom with how I build a town rather than being held to the reality of one. With that said I will do the research on real cities and towns if my characters happen to visit them for a chapter or something.

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College work has me swamped
in the one year+ I've been writing (started in september 2016 Ive finished 4 complete chapters, at around 70 pages

For me, I was trying to challenge myself to find a real world location that would fit the bill of “I gotta get out of here” and have it not be an obvious place like Detroit. The actual setting was able to be boring because it was more of a central hub the character returned to after each adventure rather than the sole location for the story. Plus, the place I found had a surprisingly cool name.
Originally I was stuck between Chinle Arizona and Blue Earth Minnesota, but then I found the location I eventually picked(I’m saving it in case I recycle the location for another project)

It's a shy QT 3.14 living with you who (inadvertently) gets her friends to have sex with you.

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>M-m-my stories aren't trash, i swear! It cant be garbage because it’s not a fanfiction! I’M BETTER THAN THEM DAMMIT!

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I already finished a handful of long greentext stories in past Spooktober threads. It got kind of tiring after a while, I need to do other things now.

I dont deny my own work isnt probably anything great, but fanfiction I classify as inherently worse due to the nature of taking someone elses world and just using that. It's like those object/texture pre made packs you get on unity

Thanks for reminding me to cure k out the latest watamote. One of my favorite chapters yet

It’s a little more complex than that.
The most basic of fan fiction is people who take existing characters just to have an instant reader base and to have premise characters that you don’t have to develop or explain in the context of your story. These are the fanfics that usually don’t keep in character and are just of the show in name only.
The more complex fan fictions is very similar to writing with a reference sheet. You have the characters. The setting, and their traits, but you have to design a story that works for them while still giving them a character arc. The challenge comes in making the character’s dialogue and actions feel like something from the source material. The best of these fan fictions use their story as a commentary on the source itself by using lesser known traits as a basis for the character’s motivations.
I once wrote a Loud House fic thst intentionally opened with a first chapter that was essentially a fan made episode so I could then take that world and turn things darker and put the characters that I had already introduced very much in their original context through a much heavier story line.
Though original works is definitely a more difficult task because you need to be completely creative, a fan fiction done properly confines you in lot of ways and forces you into a canon not of your own design

Best girl

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I think a better argument is to compared well down fan fiction to that of a comic run or tv season taken over by a new writing staff. In order to pull that off, the new writer needs to keep the character’s acting like the used to while also giving their own flavor to the universe. Except those writers get paid and are generally better...unless they’re Mark Waid

you two should team up and write something together. with your powers combined you can make something not shit.

>wrote my first "successful" fanfic two years ago
>300+ reviews, pretty much all of them positive with only some slight criticism here and there
>promised there would be a sequel
>moved to a new country and got busy with work so never had a chance to work on
>every now and then people still ask if the sequel is coming
>go back and reread the fic myself
>realize it was fun to write but notice a lot of bad writing habits and start to wonder how it got so popular in the first place

Just can't bring myself to get going again. Also the fic was based off of something new at the time that I was pretty hyped up about when it first came out which motivated me to crank out a chapter every other day or so. Now that the hype has long died down I don't have the same enthusiasm. I do want to get back to it eventually since it was the only fic I ever wrote that got such a positive response.

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I'm writing a D&D campaign, if that counts as fanfiction. I have to have it finished by friday, and I have maybe 4 hours of campaign in it when I need about 8 or 12. I've been stuck on the beginning of the 3rd section for 2 weeks now, trying to think of what to do. How fucked am I?

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Because I start writing, then I stop, then I go back and write some more, then I stop writing for a while, then I lose interest, then the interest comes back, then I write a little bit, then I stop writing again, then I lose interest altogether. Is there a name for this problem I have?

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University.

I'm almost done, I just can't decide if I want to add one more scene or not.

i'm still writing it
i'm taking a break to write fanfic to clear my mind and get new ideas

I dunno, but if there is, you and I have the same problem.

What’s worse is when I start writing fapfics and then lose interest in them. I’ve got probably about a dozen of those on my computer, and every so often people will ask if I’m going to finish them.

Part of me wants to just remove it because I’m not sure if I’m ever going to finish. The other part of me doesn’t want to take down a fix that people obviously get off to, cause that’s just a dick move

I burned myself out writing nearly 700,000 words in less than three months while studying for the MCAT. Unfortunately it's not Sup Forums material.

Just finished writting my big story (20 chapters; eash chapter 8k - 12k words). Now I need to rewritre some old chapters, because my style developed really well.
Honestly, I have never thought that I would love to write something. You can finally write down all your ideas about different characters and stop keeping them in your head. It's really fun.

Although I don't think that I would want to share my story with the community.

so you didn't write it then?

Remember sissy boys, don't complain about writer's block. Write you goddamn fucking idiots that's how you get better and get shit done.

My day job is writting so I end up kinda burnt out after. I've been drafting a Valhallen/White Tiger fic in my phone during commute though.

I was writing Futurama fan-sctript at some point (Although I would call it fake transcript, because it's formatted like the transcript) but I forgot where I put it. If I find it, I might continue.

It's hard
On one side, I always feel like it's never good enough, and these stories get thousands of views
And then when I do something I'm kinda proud of, these somehow fail and don't get anywhere close to the others
So there's this nagging lack of confidence that hinders my ability to let go and write anything I want, even if thousands read them, even if hundreds tell me how good it is and whatnot, it's kinda hard to trust them, you know? Especially in these dark times

And then there's 'these' stories I end up way too emotionally attached to, or to some characters, and it just destroys what little life I have, constantly thinking about it/them at any hour of the day and imagining them in said situations etc
And when something bad happens to them, something I didn't 'plan' and yet something I just can't get out of my head and I start crying like a 14yo girl with daddy issues, I realize that maybe I'm not cut for that

So yeah, that and the fact that smut is just that much more popular means I'm trying not to be too invested into it, and just write one-shot smuts here and there instead
Also engrish is hard and I barely had any education, that doesn't help

I don't write fanfiction because its pretty easy to get swept into the idea that somehow fanfiction is just as good as actual written stuff by real writers. Also, I'm pretty sure i'd get tired of writing a derivative work.

That's an average of, what, 7000-8000 words a day?

Whoops, meant for

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I never had a writter block tho. I write everyday actually. I just said that my old chapters need to be rewritten.

Good job, you are automatically better than 80% of other writers including me. I'm actually pretty impressed.

I'd rather make a fancomic. which I already have

gibt link then

>And then when I do something I'm kinda proud of, these somehow fail and don't get anywhere close to the others
share with us user

If I could man. Firstly, it's not written in English. Secondly, I don't really plan to share it with the community. (well, not until it will be checked 5 times for grammatical errors)
Here's a screenshot I guess. That's the last chapter. I think I wrote it in two weeks.

I'm not really good at giving tips, but I think the most important part of not having the writter block is to be really immersed both in the story and your idea. To the point that you wouldn't really care about the feedback.

oops, sorry, forgot the screenshot

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I keep rereading my own words, hate it and end up deleting. Then i think of more ideas and repeat the process.

>I don't write fanfiction because its pretty easy to get swept into the idea that somehow fanfiction is just as good as actual written stuff by real writers.
>Implying that isnt true
I don’t think you realize how much boring, unspired trite there is clogging up your local library’s bookshelves.

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I don't think you realize that people make actual money and get actual people want to get a signed autograph and not a pen-name from those books. There's nothing wrong with liking fanfiction and wanting to write it. It's thinking in any way shape or form what you are writing is somehow credible to you as a writer when the foundation has already been built for you to bounce off of. I love fanfiction, personally. A lot of it really fun and exciting but it feels really hollow in comparison to the work it's usually based off of.

I don't think you realize how much money some of these fanfic writers make with patreon and shit