Aspies For Freedom

I'm fanfic writer myself, With Avatar the Last Airbender as my muse. I do have an FF.net account Look for BardChild.

I used to. Star Trek, Star Wars, Earth Final Conflict, Xena and Lord of the Rings... I started a Marx Brothers play, but never finished it.

Now I'm writing an original piece and it is so much MORE fun I don't think I'll ever go back to borrowing the universes of others. It's a lot more work though... But I'm figuring it out. It's been 2 years now and I'm almost done.

I like to read it; I am currently writing a story, which isn't fanfic true, but is based off an RP. I also have a Mary Sue parody up.

I love writing fanfiction. I love to explore and investigate; I explore the little nicks and crevices in stories by writing fanfiction.

I hate how people say that you're not being creative when you're writing fanfiction. I've noticed this is mostly said by uncreative people who have no clue what they're talking about. They say, "You're taking those writers' ideas and claiming them as your own. You can be more creative than that! Why don't you write about something you make up!"

It's so annoying. No, I'm being creative by writing what I want. It wouldn't be creative if I just wrote something so other people would see it as a  "legitamite" creation.

I've read Pokemon stories that have far surpassed the original games in terms of plot and insight. They should be, IMO, considered as much of a dignified part of the Pokemon fandom as things that have the Nintendo stamp. Not only that, but think about all the OFFICIAL adaptions that have stemmed from The Great Tajiri Satoshi's original idea. There is no doubt that, say, Pokemon Adventures/Special (a manga) took the very vague themes of the games and molded them into a brilliantly dramatic story. One that literally had me sobbing out loud while reading it in the locker room. There is no denying that this is creative - why should it be considered more so than equally well-told fanfiction, just because The Great Kusaka Hidenori has permission from the original creator?

Saying that a story should stop where the author choses to end it, is like saying that we should have stopped adding onto the periodic table of elements when Dmitri Mendeleev died.

And Pokemon is just an example, here. This could be applied to almost any story.

I also hate those writers who say all those stupid comments like "real writers don't feed off others' minds", 'cause that is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. People just say that 'cause they wanna sound cool and professional. That is saying that people who base stories off mythology, or even write genre fiction, aren't true writers. Furthermore, I don't see why writing a story that is set in a world invented by someone else, is any less original than writing a story set in the real world. This is just a matter of pride, and has nothing to do with being truly creative.

Creativity knows not copyright laws.

Just had to get that out...

Anyway, back on topic - I love fanfiction. YAY ME.

Good point!

There was a time just a few short centuries ago when original fiction would have been considered inferior. The attitude was something like, "You wrote that? Well whoopee doo -- you just made it up. Are you so hopeless that you have to make up your own stuff instead of finding something interesting to do with the classics?"

It's strange. I write a lot of original stuff. Including novels which I'm still trying to get published -- gotta rewrite. Anyways...

I s'pose for me that writing fanfiction -- whether it's based on myths or on other stuff -- is more an outlet for obsessions than anything else because otherwise I can't think about anything else (and occasionally can't even focus on my other writing.)

So perhaps it's best described as letting out pressure. Like releasing water from a dam before the whole thing overfills and bursts.

Another question is, what do people do with fanfiction once it's written?

I do the same thing!! Like in P.E., I pretend my favorite Pokemon characters are in the class with us, and imagine all this stuff for them to say and do. It would be atrocious as a fanfic, but it passes the time... and probably makes everyone think I'm crazy for laughing and seemingly nothing...

I write fanfiction. Though I haven't submitted any work onto the internet, I have worked hard on fanfiction for four years. So far, all my material has been experimental.

Perhaps the most unique part about my work is that I use my hometown in Southwest Florida as the setting 99% of the time (not to mention I do BIGTIME crossovers). For me, one specific group of characters from a show isn't enough. If I'm going to make a story, it involves a lot of time and mixture.

Overall, I've made some really odd stories, mostly about street racing and remote areas sealed off from their suburban setting. Another common element is war.

LOL, it's not you, Ethel. Finding authors in that site is confusing as heck, and whether or not the search engine will pick them up seems completely random. Like, my pen name there is neogirl7900. When I search "neogirl7900", nothing comes up. But my account does come up when I search "neogirl".

You poor thing... no, I'm not being sarcastic.

The other question of course, is what to do with it once it is written.

Do you,

a) burn it?
b) stick it in a box somewhere, never to be seen again?
c) share it?
d) post it?

Honestly, I have no idea which of these four would be the better option.

That's why they have the C2's. Maybe they should have a rating system, too... (though there'd probably be issues with annoying fangirls "five"-ing everything with the ships they like, and "one"-ing things with the ships they don't like... maybe only certain people could rate?? I dunno...)

Well I just joined fanfiction.net - should be able to start posting my story soon (in a couple of days)

Dunnit!!! ^

My DS9 fanfic

Thanks Bonnie.

And if I happen to dream up something for your site, I'll certainly give it a go.

First I gotta stick with all the... stuff I'm already working on! and also I was going to post a (possibly better-edited) edition of "Artemis" story on that same site.

Actually I've found most of the fanficcy stuff I read has been really good. (Pleasantly surprised.)

Wow, that sounds like it'd be a lot of fun. Shakespeare fanfic, I mean. I think the way I'd go about it would be to use the plot of a play as a setting, and take a minor character and give him his own story. That would be really cool. I couldn't do it in verse, though.