So, I've been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)

Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can't afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn't lose all my work.

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[–] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's much easier to write your own version of a copyrighted material than to creatively write on your own. My work is fanfiction based on someone else's ideas. Yours is all you and I envy that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always found fanfic easier to write because someone else did huge amounts of world building for me! I don't have to describe say, Luffy's powers because the person reading it ideally watched or read One Piece and knows stuff! Same with prestablished relationships.

    175k is still insane! Best I did was 50k for nanowrimo like a decade ago for the Garrett Investigates fandom.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's part of the reason I wrote mine with mostly original or remixed characters, so I could explore things Oda didn't while still playing in his world. There's a tremendous freedom and responsibility in fanfiction if you're trying to honor the original. If not for my kid acting as a sounding board, I would have quit long ago.

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