July WIP Challenge: Day 6 Check-In

[lexicalcrow]

Day six was rather productive for me. I hope it was for you too.

Today, I have done:
- Writing
- Editing
- Sent fic to beta
- Post
- Planning and/or research
- Procrastinate
- Something else I will describe in comments.

Today's question: How AU does a fic have to be before it's crossing into original fiction? Is it strictly an issue of characterisation, or are there other things at play?

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[lexicalcrow]

I've done a lot of work today. Haven't added my word count up yet, but I did some significant work on my AU big bang fic (we're past 18k), wrote a kink bingo fill (breathplay), and did some work on my kinked big bang fic, and one more fic. It's been scatty, and inconsistent, but it's more than I've done over the past few days, so I'm happy enough with that.

(It's weird answering my own question but) I don't know if it's just characterisation. Maybe that's all it is. I know I had a dystopic Western AU that was fanfic that decided, halfway through, that my characters were actually original characters, and it wasn't going to be fanfic anymore. I'm sure anyone who knows the original idea and the original fandom may pick up who's who, but I doubt anyone else would.

I suppose we're also opening up the 'thinly veiled fanfic' territory too. I'm guilty of doing that a few times. I'm still not entirely sure if they're fanfic or original either. I can't always tell if I wrote them to be fanfic, or wrote them to be original fic. So IDK.