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Aisu

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    • Which do you prefer writing, or at least which do you find easier to write, fan-fiction or original works?
     
    Bay

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    • Lately I've been doing fanfic because I would get ideas of how to develop the characters. Getting their voices down isn't easy I admit, but I'm fortunate to have friends/beta to let me know that. I used to do some original work, but I haven't been able to come up with a new one lately nor inspired to do so. Guess part of it has to do I'm able to get more writing feedback with fanfic than original work (I know there are writing groups, but in my case travel arrangements sometimes isn't easy).
     
    Astinus

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    The last time I wrote original work was back when I was eight or nine. So it's been a long time. I prefer working with fanfic because I'm terrible at coming up with original characters, so having pre-made characters to explore situations with works better for me.
     
    Sike_Saner

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    • Fanfic, hands down. I have to be super hecking interested in something in the first place to want to write about it, and I'm just... not sufficiently interested in coming up with an entire world 100% from scratch, haha.
     
    クリスタル

    クリスタル

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    • I personally just love to write what many people called "original fanfic". It is still fanfic based on already existing fictions, but instead of adapting everything especially the canon characters and canon story, only the world itself is adapted, or most of the time, adapting only the format, or the core concept.

    So instead of writing fics of already existing canon characters such as Ash Ketchum and Misty and Brock and any other companions and TRio, I preferred to write stories of my own original characters. No it is not simply journey fic of original self-insert trainer going on badge quest journey with all the characters we knew already from canon. Every single character is original, and although canon maps is used (because I'm lazy to design my original region), the functioning and principles of the world is original. Especial the story format and tone itself, I wanted to write something that the canon had never done before.
     

    Ice1

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    Bay Alexison said:
    Lately I've been doing fanfic because I would get ideas of how to develop the characters. Getting their voices down isn't easy I admit, but I'm fortunate to have friends/beta to let me know that. I used to do some original work, but I haven't been able to come up with a new one lately nor inspired to do so. Guess part of it has to do I'm able to get more writing feedback with fanfic than original work (I know there are writing groups, but in my case travel arrangements sometimes isn't easy).
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    Lots of writing groups meet online!

    I personally can't get anything done writing fan-fiction. I'm inherently scared of not doing a character justice. I tend to stick to original works, we're everything's me, and my lack of quality isn't just a dressing over someone elses world.
     
    Vagrant Pixels

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    • クリスタル said:
    I personally just love to write what many people called "original fanfic". It is still fanfic based on already existing fictions, but instead of adapting everything especially the canon characters and canon story, only the world itself is adapted, or most of the time, adapting only the format, or the core concept.

    So instead of writing fics of already existing canon characters such as Ash Ketchum and Misty and Brock and any other companions and TRio, I preferred to write stories of my own original characters. No it is not simply journey fic of original self-insert trainer going on badge quest journey with all the characters we knew already from canon. Every single character is original, and although canon maps is used (because I'm lazy to design my original region), the functioning and principles of the world is original. Especial the story format and tone itself, I wanted to write something that the canon had never done before.
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    This is it! Yes

    That's what I'm doing at the moment. Though, when it comes down to the world building, I prefer to also revamp or expand upon as much as I can, until satisfied. (Also, re-making/re-imagining the Pokémon concepts themselves.)
    I'd usually avoid canon characters, but on the very rare chance that one or two of them are too essential to ignore, well, in they go. I'm talking staples like Oak, for example. Characters that are so Pokémon that Pokémon isn't Pokémon enough without them.
     
    starseed galaxy auticorn

    starseed galaxy auticorn

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    • I prefer original fiction. It helps me express myself more. I've tried writing fanfiction when I was younger though, and it always turned out to fail me. So, I got into original fiction because it allowed me to get my original ideas out better that way.
     
    クリスタル

    クリスタル

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    • Vagrant Pixels said:
    This is it! Yes

    That's what I'm doing at the moment. Though, when it comes down to the world building, I prefer to also revamp or expand upon as much as I can, until satisfied. (Also, re-making/re-imagining the Pokémon concepts themselves.)
    I'd usually avoid canon characters, but on the very rare chance that one or two of them are too essential to ignore, well, in they go. I'm talking staples like Oak, for example. Characters that are so Pokémon that Pokémon isn't Pokémon enough without them.
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    For me, I even removed Prof.Oak in my universe. I just don't use his importance as anything "staple" to the Pokemon universe, or more fundamentally, I don't even need his existence to establish my story.
    For anything that is canonical about my currently working Pokemon fanfic, that will merely be the world map itself, and the existence of Pokemon themselves. Every other things, including the functional concepts of gyms and league and trainer and Pokemon within one's life, are all rewritten in my own original ways.
     
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