Like, to be a writer you must actually write, and I’m sorry to say it and to hurt so many feelings but writing fanfiction will not prepare you for the publishing world. It’s a way different sort of game, writing for A03 where you can delete the hateful comments or on Tumblr where you can focus in on the positive takes of your work. Truly, if you’re going to write for like, real publications and some real shit and some real people, they’re not going to be interested in that precious passive tone. They’re going to tire of that fanfiction voice, going to know that you haven’t created worlds of your own, that you’ve only been borrowing other people’s characters. And it’s hard, I know! But you have to do more than write fanfiction, have to do way more than read fanfiction. If you really want to write and be a writer and an Author for The Monies, you’re gonna have to push yourself instead of trying to get that Keith x Lance modern au published, you know?
This is a really hilarious hill to wanna die on considering the first story in your personal writing tag begins with “It was a dark and stormy night” - which is a famous opening line lifted directly from Madeleine L'Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time.
There’s nothin wrong with that per se, especially if you’re still learning, but maybe take a look in the mirror before condemning people who write fanfic as forever lesser than other writers. There is no such thing as original fiction, and you prove it every time you do something like begin a story with a sentence that has been used before. Because you know what? Madeleine L'Engle lifted it from elsewhere too! She took it from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Paul Clifford.
I do find it hilarious that you picked klance to poke fun at lol, I did get a giggle out of that, because we all need to laugh at ourselves sometimes. But I’m more bothered than I am amused, because this ugly idea that in order to be a Writer you must always be pulling sanitary, fresh, hitherto untouched and unheard of ideas from the Mysterious Ether is not only stupid but completely unsustainable. Nobody does this. No writer, artist, or creator does that. All ideas have been done before! It’s just up to us to do them in a brand new way. And some people want to do that via fanfic. That does not make them any less of a writer than people making up brand new characters for each story.
Besides, you know what counts as fanfic?
Beowulf. The Odyssey. Every single Disney movie. All the Marvel movies that have come out in the last 20 years. Yep, all of them. And no this isn’t my opinion, this is just a basic fact. Any story that anyone has touched that wasn’t originally theirs is a type of fan-work. I don’t know what people don’t understand about this.
You are surrounded by fanfiction, and fanfiction counts as art.
Deal with it.
like, to be an artist you must actually paint, i’m sorry to say it and to hurt so many feelings but painting fanart will not prepare you for the art world. if you really want to be an artist and a painter for The Monies you’re gonna have to push yourself instead of painting that jesus fanart on the sistine chapel, you know?
i know you think you’re being clever, but actually focusing on original works instead of fanwork will help you improve your craft faster.
“Hey writing exclusively fanfic will not 100% mean as much or do as well as original works. It usually doesn’t require worldbuilding, character design or writing, a theme, or even a real plot, and will not develop your skills or appeal to an audience the way original work can.”
“Have you considered that michelangelos david is fanfiction? Checkmate op”
OP youve been published like once
