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[rogin]

Hi adorable flisty people! I'm contemplating posting my first all alone multipart story with an actual plot and everything. It's pretty much all plotted out by now, but there were some questions I was asking myself during the process and it made me wonder what all of you would say to them and how you prefer your fanfic.[Poll #1247604][Poll #1247604]

Comments

[rahirah]

On original characters - I love 'em, I create 'em, I write 'em. It's true that many fan writers aren't very good at original characters - but how the heck will they learn to do better if they never write any? I'm never gonna tell someone not to do OCs, even if I end up cringing as I read about them.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

You're the first fandom writer that comes to my mind when I think of cool original characters.

I had a two pretty important OCs in the story when I first started to write on this, but in retrospective I made a lot of beginners mistakes with those characters, so I reduced them drastically.
I still kept them and I like to have a few OC's (or nearly unmentioned folks from the show fleshed out). It's a thin line but you're right, not trying wont make me any better at it.

Thank you for taking the poll! It's really interesting to get so many opinions!