Fanfic vs. Real Writing: The Ultimate Showdown.
I just don't know about fanfiction. It started out as a fun hobby but ended up being more a crutch I could lean on as I developed my writing skills. But now I write original fiction, and I like to think I'm getting somewhere with it, making progress as a writer... but fanfiction is kind of always nagging at the back of my mind, and so I still write it. Sometimes I think it is totally fine, lots of people do it, and anyway it is improving my skillz so that is always good. But other times it embarrasses me beyond belief. It is so awkward that I still don't have enough ideas of my own to be able to write original fiction, that I still need to use other people's characters and situations in order to express myself.
So what do I do? Should I go hardcore ff and post everything I've ever written, all the ridiculous ten-page Remus/Sirius stories, the awkward Ros/Guil paragraphs, the Sparrington to which I keep adding sentences that up the rating... etc... because I mean, there is always a receptive community in basically every fandom and people reading your writing is good, right? Should I let my impulses go and write the ridiculous amounts of Doctor Who and Torchwood slash and crossover fic that has been brewing in the back of my mind for weeks?
Or should I suppress the fic urges and really try to concentrate on writing original fiction, working on longer original pieces and ACTUALLY FINISHING SOMETHING FOR ONCE EVER?
Words of advice? Questions/comments/concerns? Throwing of rotten vegetables? Open laughter?
So what do I do? Should I go hardcore ff and post everything I've ever written, all the ridiculous ten-page Remus/Sirius stories, the awkward Ros/Guil paragraphs, the Sparrington to which I keep adding sentences that up the rating... etc... because I mean, there is always a receptive community in basically every fandom and people reading your writing is good, right? Should I let my impulses go and write the ridiculous amounts of Doctor Who and Torchwood slash and crossover fic that has been brewing in the back of my mind for weeks?
Or should I suppress the fic urges and really try to concentrate on writing original fiction, working on longer original pieces and ACTUALLY FINISHING SOMETHING FOR ONCE EVER?
Words of advice? Questions/comments/concerns? Throwing of rotten vegetables? Open laughter?