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20 –Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
I don’t really read other peoples’ fic. I’m sorry guys, but I’ve always been pretty upfront about that. I do not want to be bunnied from someone else’s work. I don’t want to take the chance of stealing a story idea. It’s hard enough to write unique fanfic if you try to stay as true to character as possible. I’m sure there have been plenty of times when I’ve used the same lines as another fic writer, but at least I can honestly say that I didn’t read it someplace else. I read fic from a handful of people, and that is it.
21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
I’ve had one shots that won’t die, had ‘verses spawned in one fic that need to keep going. I don’t write a lot of big fic. I prefer to explore the characters in 2K or less, but once in a Blue Moon, I do write something that is in multiple parts. That’s not exactly a sequel, but it’s as close as I get.
I think sequels are great, but like the movies, books and television there comes a point when it’s time to let the character/world go. I don’t want people to ever read my fic or my real writing out of obligation or morbid curiosity like so many people I know keep buying LKH’s Anita Blake books. They know they suck. They know Anita should have been retired around book 9, but they keep buying them.
I never want to be the writer that can sell a bag of puke because my name is on it. I’d rather be the writer that sells because my story is good, not because my name is big. I think that’s why when it was time to retire Caleb, it wasn’t hard to let him go. Someday I’ll have to retire Sylar, and eventually I’ll have to retire my original characters too.
I don’t really read other peoples’ fic. I’m sorry guys, but I’ve always been pretty upfront about that. I do not want to be bunnied from someone else’s work. I don’t want to take the chance of stealing a story idea. It’s hard enough to write unique fanfic if you try to stay as true to character as possible. I’m sure there have been plenty of times when I’ve used the same lines as another fic writer, but at least I can honestly say that I didn’t read it someplace else. I read fic from a handful of people, and that is it.
21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
I’ve had one shots that won’t die, had ‘verses spawned in one fic that need to keep going. I don’t write a lot of big fic. I prefer to explore the characters in 2K or less, but once in a Blue Moon, I do write something that is in multiple parts. That’s not exactly a sequel, but it’s as close as I get.
I think sequels are great, but like the movies, books and television there comes a point when it’s time to let the character/world go. I don’t want people to ever read my fic or my real writing out of obligation or morbid curiosity like so many people I know keep buying LKH’s Anita Blake books. They know they suck. They know Anita should have been retired around book 9, but they keep buying them.
I never want to be the writer that can sell a bag of puke because my name is on it. I’d rather be the writer that sells because my story is good, not because my name is big. I think that’s why when it was time to retire Caleb, it wasn’t hard to let him go. Someday I’ll have to retire Sylar, and eventually I’ll have to retire my original characters too.
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