Fanfic writer12/15/2023 But novelists don’t always start from scratch, either. In fanfiction you’re working with characters and in worlds created by somebody else, so you don’t start from scratch. I’ve contributed to fandoms for Harry Potter, Adventure Time, and How to Train Your Dragon, and I would say that the challenges in fanfiction and traditional fiction are essentially the same. I said, “I think you’ve really got a future in writing, so keep it up.” Fanfiction can make me cry as easily as any other story. She was European, and it took her a while to believe that it was really me. Really beautiful - the way the writer conveyed the characters. Two of the best stories I’ve ever read in my life, published or not, were fanfiction. I didn’t have to alter Darry’s character at all in the new story, because there was plenty there from the original to be enlarged upon. I saw that he was trying his best to be a good caretaker. But writing from Darry’s point of view, I felt a lot more sympathetic towards him. In the original story, Ponyboy sees Darry as this annoying parental figure who is bossing him around all of a sudden. I don’t know if I’d even try one from Ponyboy’s point of view anymore. I told two stories from Darry’s point of view, which is an indication that I’m older now. I was amazed at how incredibly easy it was to get back on the page. The boys face their first Christmas after the end of the novel, and the death of Ponyboy and Darry’s parents. This story would have been historical even when The Outsiders came out. For The Outsiders fanfiction, I will say that I set the characters in a different time period. It’s something I did for fun, and none of the stories are really meant for more than a few minutes of enjoyment. I seldom spent more than a day writing a fanfic story, sometimes less. But it is immediate, and there’s something to be said for that. Along the lines of, “Oh my God, I love this! Keep going!” Nothing specific, like what you’d get from an editor. The feedback from fanfic readers tends to be really simple. People would say, “Wow, you really got the characters down right!” And I’d be like, Glad to hear it. And a few years ago I wrote three Outsiders stories to see what kind of a response I would get. I’ve written three or four stories for Supernatural, which is my favorite TV show. Here’s what they had to say about the experience. But professional authors are fans, too, and the following successful novelists have dipped their pens in the fic inkwell. We tend to think of the fanfiction writer as an obsessed amateur, pounding away at the keyboard for sheer love of the subject. Photo: Jed Egan/Photo: Nancy Moran/Sygma/Corbis, Warner Bros.
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