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[cassaclyzm]

On some level, the prospect of writing Fanfiction frightens me. I don't know why it should, considering everybody else seems to be able to hack away at it with no qualms whatsoever. But the fact that I'd be dabbling in someone else's world, someone elses characters, someone elses vision... It's intimidating. And I can't just hop in and start smashing away at the keyboard, filling in gaps in my knowledge and happily informing readers that "I haven't done any research into this, so I'm assuming a loty of things". I just can't. I wouldn't want to read that, so I don't want to produce that.

But then again, I'm lazy, and am not particularly apt to go research a lot of things.

Such as, oh, Lord of the Rings. (The mere concept of that one frightens me.)

So should I forget about it, and produce something I probably won't be proud of, or risk winding up never doing it at all in the face of procrastination?

Comments

don't screw it up, is all

[devind.livejournal.com]

How about...do a fanfic, but not screw it up by researching the topic?

[risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

Don't forget, most of the people who hack away at it are, appropriately, hacks. (Using Fanfiction.net as basis for the statement) If you write something legible, you're ahead of half of them, and if you write something good, there's very little competition. As long as you don't Mary Sue it, give it a try. The worst that can happen is that you'll say "This is crap!" Right?