Thoughts on writing fanfic - from my tumblr

[Originally posted on tumblr.]

Within the past few days I've seen a few different reblogged quotes about writing fanfic as uncomfortable self-discovery of your kinks and, more dragon age specific, about how writing your Hawkes (or Wardens) is a window into your soul (which can be potentially uncomfortable, exposing, and akin to walking about naked in public).

And after writing fanfic for seven years and, during the years before that, co-writing a few screenplays and short stories, I see how fanfic writers might feel this way except I do not.  Although I know where that exposed feeling comes from.

I started writing fanfic to remove that exposed feeling -- a feeling I had while writing original fiction and screenplays back in my pre-fanfic days.

 

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