Yeah, for descriptions, it does make us lazy... but on the flip side, we have the added challenge, as you said in the shadows, of *matching* our shadows to their expectations. There's certain notes that we have to hit absolutely perfectly, or people won't accept it as part of their world.
I used to get a fair amount of flack for my Hiei and Kurama being OOC, despite my putting in great excessive detail at the top of stories that the characters were based on the first 25 episodes of the series and not the rest of it. Basically, I started writing when all we had were the first fansubs. And then when I saw the rest of it... well, the series itself had changed - after episode 25, Hiei and Kurama were *not* the same characters we were originally introduced to, particularly Hiei. So, well, yeah, my characters weren't set to most people who had seen the whole series expectations. And I got comments on that. Believe me, I got comments. o.O
For other differences, I think there's also the idea of getting published, and that's a different kettle of fish. Even if the writing of original fiction is done mostly identical to fanfiction, there's a whole lot of extra work and effort and heart-break going into trying to get said original fiction published. Good numbers of people who write original fiction want to try and get published someday. Whereas people who write fanfiction just want to toss it up on the internet and not worry about publishing. Fanfiction already has an in-built audience, where as original fiction has to go out and hunt their audience down. But that's not the actual writing process.
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Date: 2012-03-19 06:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, for descriptions, it does make us lazy... but on the flip side, we have the added challenge, as you said in the shadows, of *matching* our shadows to their expectations. There's certain notes that we have to hit absolutely perfectly, or people won't accept it as part of their world.
I used to get a fair amount of flack for my Hiei and Kurama being OOC, despite my putting in great excessive detail at the top of stories that the characters were based on the first 25 episodes of the series and not the rest of it. Basically, I started writing when all we had were the first fansubs. And then when I saw the rest of it... well, the series itself had changed - after episode 25, Hiei and Kurama were *not* the same characters we were originally introduced to, particularly Hiei. So, well, yeah, my characters weren't set to most people who had seen the whole series expectations. And I got comments on that. Believe me, I got comments. o.O
For other differences, I think there's also the idea of getting published, and that's a different kettle of fish. Even if the writing of original fiction is done mostly identical to fanfiction, there's a whole lot of extra work and effort and heart-break going into trying to get said original fiction published. Good numbers of people who write original fiction want to try and get published someday. Whereas people who write fanfiction just want to toss it up on the internet and not worry about publishing. Fanfiction already has an in-built audience, where as original fiction has to go out and hunt their audience down. But that's not the actual writing process.