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Today I
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planned
2 (40.0%)
researched
1 (20.0%)
wrote
4 (80.0%)
sent to beta
0 (0.0%)
edited
1 (20.0%)
posted
2 (40.0%)
rested
0 (0.0%)
did something else
1 (20.0%)
The way I feel about that is
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Mean: 6.60 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.36
Mean: 6.60 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.36
Terrible 1 | 0 (0.0%) | |
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2 | 0 (0.0%) | |
3 | 0 (0.0%) | |
4 | 0 (0.0%) | |
5 | 1 (20.0%) | |
6 | 2 (40.0%) | |
7 | 1 (20.0%) | |
8 | 0 (0.0%) | |
9 | 1 (20.0%) | |
Terrific 10 | 0 (0.0%) |
Do you write original fiction? If so, what do you find different about original fiction versus fan fiction?
I haven't written original fiction in a bit more than a decade. As long as I'm writing fan fiction, my family can't nag me to try to sell it (the idea of filing off serial numbers hasn't occurred to them). I want my writing to remain a hobby.
As to the differences, in fan fiction, I can get away with not describing what my characters look like. I can't so much in original fiction (I generally forget the description the first time through). In fan fiction, there's a continuity that I have to work with and can't readily change, AUs aside. In original fiction, the author creates the continuity and can alter it as needed. Fan fiction has a ready made audience, I find. For the stuff I write, that audience tends not to be very large, but I suspect that there're more people reading my fic than there would be people reading my original writing (if I did any).
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