I am... quite surprised to see this many people admitting that they have wrote fanfiction, personally I don't write but I've spent a lot of time reading some of them.
Have you ever wrote a fanfic? And if yes, why (and for what)?
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Yes, and they were awful. Not as bad as some I suppose, but dreadful all the same. I used to churn out the stuff and now that I want to write my own stories I have writer's block =(
Oh and it was mostly Ranma 1/2 fanfics I wrote, canon optional. SO BAD.
Too tired to write more. To quote MovieBob: I SLEEP NOW!
Oh and it was mostly Ranma 1/2 fanfics I wrote, canon optional. SO BAD.
Too tired to write more. To quote MovieBob: I SLEEP NOW!
Wow, so many answers! Thank you all very much (and for the links and advices and sharing the experience), I would certainly love to hear more.
It would be a journey, I guess, and story of discovery somewhat and maybe friendship... but adding to "Bastion" with my writing seems almost heretical because it is a such a good game and story on its own. And I'm very reluctant to use canon characters at this point but my own characters tend to go, er, overpower, and Sui-ish so I'm very reluctant to make them either. This is aside of not having a story.
Um... there is a little game called "Bastion" and I wanted to write something about local mode of transportation called Sky Ways. In-game they serve to travel from place to place but I think they were made before the big disaster struck and the world got broken. But why, who built them in the world that didn't need them? I have a hook but don't have a story.Red Oni said:
It would be a journey, I guess, and story of discovery somewhat and maybe friendship... but adding to "Bastion" with my writing seems almost heretical because it is a such a good game and story on its own. And I'm very reluctant to use canon characters at this point but my own characters tend to go, er, overpower, and Sui-ish so I'm very reluctant to make them either. This is aside of not having a story.
Yes, once back in High School. It was an absolutely terrible crossover btwn LoZ, FFVII and my own OC. It's a small mercy that it never got published online and I lost the file.
The biggest reason I never liked to write fan fiction is that I'm always afraid that I'll screw up whatever series I'm attempting to write fan fiction of. Which I'm guessing is not a concern most other fan fiction writers share because they butt fuck them all the time.
EDIT: I did have an idea for a LoZ fan fiction that was basically a retelling of Twilight Princess except replace Link with Goku from DBZ (obviously from near the beginning of the series, not the end). I got the idea when I was playing Twilight Princess and had actually named Link "Goku" because I felt like it which led the amusing thought that if it was actually Goku he'd probably become an Oozaru in the Twilight instead of a wolf which of course lent itself to the amusing image of Oozaru Goku smashing the hell out of Dark Beast Ganon.
The biggest reason I never liked to write fan fiction is that I'm always afraid that I'll screw up whatever series I'm attempting to write fan fiction of. Which I'm guessing is not a concern most other fan fiction writers share because they butt fuck them all the time.
EDIT: I did have an idea for a LoZ fan fiction that was basically a retelling of Twilight Princess except replace Link with Goku from DBZ (obviously from near the beginning of the series, not the end). I got the idea when I was playing Twilight Princess and had actually named Link "Goku" because I felt like it which led the amusing thought that if it was actually Goku he'd probably become an Oozaru in the Twilight instead of a wolf which of course lent itself to the amusing image of Oozaru Goku smashing the hell out of Dark Beast Ganon.
Well, yeah, sort of. I wrote an Australian version of War Of The Worlds, where the Martians crash a cylinder in 19th century, colonial Australia. These Martians were sort of a scouting party that landed prior to the main invasion that occured in England. It was written from the perspective of a nameless, outback farmhand.
It was actually pretty good if I do say so myself. Much to my disgust, I lost it when my PC caught a virus and the hard-disk became unsalvagable.
It was actually pretty good if I do say so myself. Much to my disgust, I lost it when my PC caught a virus and the hard-disk became unsalvagable.
Oh god the amount of fanfiction I wrote as a child. Uggg. Though admittingly I had a lot of fans and even still get notices about comments and people adding them to their favorites.
Not a fanfiction I wrote, but one I loved. It was a FAKE fanfiction. Now in this universe we had already established the two main characters were in love. They were together, all is well. However many fanfictions found online are mostly romance stories, or one shots that deal with the "inner emotions" of the character (or death fanfics... Or gay shipping... dammit). However this girl took the characters and ended up writing an entirely new plot for the characters, after the setting of the story. We already knew the two leads were together, and although there were romantic moments, it was all about the plot, NOT about them hooking up. She created a new villain with very good motives, made the current characters well rounded and kept them in character, and even answered some questions left by the main story.
I used to love fanfiction, but I hated how authors would con-strew already existing characters and pretty much made up a new character, only with the same name as the old. Example being many fan girls will morph a pre-existing character into a homosexual relationship with their mortal enemy. Not against homosexuality (the story I mentioned above is about two gay cops) however, that is NOT the character. That is NOT how they would act, and NOT the actions they would take. I suppose that's what it means to be a fanficiton, but I really enjoyed stories that were more dedicated to furthering the plots of the main along in their own creative fashion, rather then morphing and stretching already known characters into a Mary Sue, only said Mary Sue is a clone of said character.
As for previous question: Most popular stories I've written were probably "Bon and Bon" for Yami no Matsuei or "Second Shadow" for xxxHolic. Oh those days...
Not a fanfiction I wrote, but one I loved. It was a FAKE fanfiction. Now in this universe we had already established the two main characters were in love. They were together, all is well. However many fanfictions found online are mostly romance stories, or one shots that deal with the "inner emotions" of the character (or death fanfics... Or gay shipping... dammit). However this girl took the characters and ended up writing an entirely new plot for the characters, after the setting of the story. We already knew the two leads were together, and although there were romantic moments, it was all about the plot, NOT about them hooking up. She created a new villain with very good motives, made the current characters well rounded and kept them in character, and even answered some questions left by the main story.
I used to love fanfiction, but I hated how authors would con-strew already existing characters and pretty much made up a new character, only with the same name as the old. Example being many fan girls will morph a pre-existing character into a homosexual relationship with their mortal enemy. Not against homosexuality (the story I mentioned above is about two gay cops) however, that is NOT the character. That is NOT how they would act, and NOT the actions they would take. I suppose that's what it means to be a fanficiton, but I really enjoyed stories that were more dedicated to furthering the plots of the main along in their own creative fashion, rather then morphing and stretching already known characters into a Mary Sue, only said Mary Sue is a clone of said character.
As for previous question: Most popular stories I've written were probably "Bon and Bon" for Yami no Matsuei or "Second Shadow" for xxxHolic. Oh those days...
I've never written a fan fic before myself, nor do I really intend to write one. I much prefer to start from scratch with my own kind of setting, rather then using or fusing together existing settings. For me, one of the most enjoyable experiences in writing is to create and build up my own lore and backstory and try to make it as believable as possible.
If you count a nuzlocke as a fan fic Im doing one right now. mostly cause I just wnat to. other than that, i started one loosely based on the concepts of the dark tower, or at least a certain aspect of the world its in.
Back in 2009 (I think, might have been earlier), I had a Fanfiction.net account. I made 4 chapters of a pitiful Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction and 2 chapters of a Pokemon one.
I was massively obsessed with Sonic and Pokemon at that time, so that's why humanity was cursed by my vile attempt at writing.
I was massively obsessed with Sonic and Pokemon at that time, so that's why humanity was cursed by my vile attempt at writing.
Hehe... nope.
If I did make one, though, it would be to ship Naoto with every single thing in P4.
Yes.
Even the bulletin board outside of Aiya.
Bulletin Board x Naoto 4ever <33
If I did make one, though, it would be to ship Naoto with every single thing in P4.
Yes.
Even the bulletin board outside of Aiya.
Bulletin Board x Naoto 4ever <33
Yep, wrote a few in high school for the Hey Arnold universe, and two poems for Naruto and Inuyasha.
Wrote them because the series never had a nice ending for Arnold and Helga and I need my romance dammit. And the poems because I liked how they fit with the characters. Wasn't good, but at age 15 you don't see it/care.
Now I just continuously read them, because I still need my romance dammit and I finished ME3 already.
Wrote them because the series never had a nice ending for Arnold and Helga and I need my romance dammit. And the poems because I liked how they fit with the characters. Wasn't good, but at age 15 you don't see it/care.
Now I just continuously read them, because I still need my romance dammit and I finished ME3 already.
I wrote one while I was doing my Writer's Comp class last year. Used it as an exercise to help improve my writing. Of course, it works best if you find an editor that's a grammar nazi. It's a little MLP self insert that I wrote as an exercise, and it seemed to do okay, not wildly successful, but not flamed into the ground either.
Back in my teenage years, I tried to write a Tenchi Muyo!/DBZ crossover. Why? Eh, I thought it was a cool concept.
Let's just say that a) I should've done a bit more research in the TM! category and b) I'm glad none of that reached the internet (especially when I first started... Jesus, "terrible" is the nice way of putting it).
I stick with original "Sageworks" now. I've been told I'm a decent writer (at WORST, if you can believe that), but I honestly fail to see how.
Let's just say that a) I should've done a bit more research in the TM! category and b) I'm glad none of that reached the internet (especially when I first started... Jesus, "terrible" is the nice way of putting it).
I stick with original "Sageworks" now. I've been told I'm a decent writer (at WORST, if you can believe that), but I honestly fail to see how.
Admittedly, I have done so 1 1/2 times.
The first one was about a person who was following Altair and saw him carry out an assassination, which I did because I had to write something for my English class and I was really into Assassin's Creed at the time. The 1/2 one was for the same class, and we had to create a comic using a number of vocabulary words. So, I did it about Assassin's Creed (these two were done around the same time FYI), and it was about how Altair had to go on a mission while on a cold, and it poked fun at several aspects of the game (such as the beggars, and that the Damascus Bureau leader that talks a whole lot).
The first one was about a person who was following Altair and saw him carry out an assassination, which I did because I had to write something for my English class and I was really into Assassin's Creed at the time. The 1/2 one was for the same class, and we had to create a comic using a number of vocabulary words. So, I did it about Assassin's Creed (these two were done around the same time FYI), and it was about how Altair had to go on a mission while on a cold, and it poked fun at several aspects of the game (such as the beggars, and that the Damascus Bureau leader that talks a whole lot).
I actually wrote one once. It was for a very odd English paper that basically was to write a fanfic. My teacher was very modern with her teaching, and thought of really weird ways to help us get into writing and what not.
Our assignment was to go into our favorite medium at the time, and find two different established characters in two very different forms of that medium who were the "hero". You were then to take the hero, and everything established to and about him, and transport him into the world and conflict of the others', and write a ten page story on how the two would interact.
So mine was what if a traditional JRPG character (in my case Cloud because VII was still rather fresh in my mind and IX hadn't come out just yet) was placed into Legend Of Zelda. I don't think it came out too well, and I had promptly put it into a green folder never to be found again. Though the idea still lingers with me from time to time.
Our assignment was to go into our favorite medium at the time, and find two different established characters in two very different forms of that medium who were the "hero". You were then to take the hero, and everything established to and about him, and transport him into the world and conflict of the others', and write a ten page story on how the two would interact.
So mine was what if a traditional JRPG character (in my case Cloud because VII was still rather fresh in my mind and IX hadn't come out just yet) was placed into Legend Of Zelda. I don't think it came out too well, and I had promptly put it into a green folder never to be found again. Though the idea still lingers with me from time to time.
I wrote a fanfiction to some scifi movie, turned out few hundred pages book, and i also wrote a fanfiction to Max Payne game (cha didn't expect that?). Both were written for purpose of 1 person reading it, she liked it, and thats all i care about. this was way back, 5 years ago or so.
oh i actually started on a sequel to my first book, but it never got finished and is on permanent hold.
oh i actually started on a sequel to my first book, but it never got finished and is on permanent hold.
I have written a few. I wrote one about Dragonball Z, and how my OC got pulled into the universe right around the time of the Namekian/Frieza Saga. It was long, and as a creative writing project in high school, it wasn't very favorably received. I kept it going up until the Cell saga ending, where my OC was returned to reality after taking Goku's place as the sacrifice that destroys Cell. Was going to keep going but got bored.
I wrote another about a mod for Battlefield 2. It was the Omnicide mod. Anyways there's a really creepy vibe to one of the maps, and i wrote it like a Journal of my characters last days. Wishing he had gone with his father to gather supplies, and how his dad always made things less scary. Then venturing outside the building and after a little while getting surrounded. I left it as a semi cliffhanger as the Journal writer is perched on a roof of a different building, looking at the last clip in his gun, and seeing among the hordes...his father.
Other than that, i was writing a vampire/undead slayer Fan-fiction based in either the Dresden or Deathgate universe, but can't seem to get it rolling.
I wrote another about a mod for Battlefield 2. It was the Omnicide mod. Anyways there's a really creepy vibe to one of the maps, and i wrote it like a Journal of my characters last days. Wishing he had gone with his father to gather supplies, and how his dad always made things less scary. Then venturing outside the building and after a little while getting surrounded. I left it as a semi cliffhanger as the Journal writer is perched on a roof of a different building, looking at the last clip in his gun, and seeing among the hordes...his father.
Other than that, i was writing a vampire/undead slayer Fan-fiction based in either the Dresden or Deathgate universe, but can't seem to get it rolling.
I have tried writing one or two fics set in some anime's about original characters and one time i wrote a full blown parallel side-story Mortal Instruments Fanfiction: Short version was that it actually dealt with what might have happened if some normal humans found out about the magical world and formed an organisation to...keep tabs so to speak on not just the magical world but on the Shadowhunters. It would have run parallel to the three books as the organisation tried to track down and undo what Valentine was doing in the series, while also making sure the shadowhunters didn't catch on they existed. So, in short, kind of more like an espionage thriller of sorts with supernatural elements..
For the most part i did it to improve my writing capabilities, and in other ways just because i was bored. But, one of my main rules was to usually stay as far away from fucking with Canon as i could.
I never actually get very far in my stories because i have a strange curse......I write things, usually putting some effort into them, and nobody ever reads them. Really, every damned thing i post on the internet gathers dust: No bad comments, no good comments, not a single fucking rating. And, contrary to popular belief, writers don't improve when they don't get any fucking feedback.
Understandably, i just decided to give up after a while and havn't written a fanfiction in years. Or really many fictional things outside of a D&D campaign I'm running my friends through because...AT-LEAST THAT WAY I ACTUALLY GET FEEDBACK!
For the most part i did it to improve my writing capabilities, and in other ways just because i was bored. But, one of my main rules was to usually stay as far away from fucking with Canon as i could.
I never actually get very far in my stories because i have a strange curse......I write things, usually putting some effort into them, and nobody ever reads them. Really, every damned thing i post on the internet gathers dust: No bad comments, no good comments, not a single fucking rating. And, contrary to popular belief, writers don't improve when they don't get any fucking feedback.
Understandably, i just decided to give up after a while and havn't written a fanfiction in years. Or really many fictional things outside of a D&D campaign I'm running my friends through because...AT-LEAST THAT WAY I ACTUALLY GET FEEDBACK!