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Me! I got into fanfiction back when my mother had cancer. I needed to write in order to function, but the emotional turmoil in my life made it next to impossible to write anything with original characters.
I wrote over 350000 words of CSI and Criminal Minds fanfic until my mother recovered.
There was no pressure, you see? No real stress and I always got positive reviews.
I have since made the big move to original fiction, but in doing fanfic I could practice the skills I was learning in my Fiction class at college (was enrolled during my mother's illness). Particularly, staying in character. I'd put the fanfic characters into situations and would try to keep them true to the characters on the actual episodes. I practiced building suspense and tension and longer story lines.
I also wrote my first novel-length pieces in fanfiction.
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Bridget--aka fotobridget2 on ff.net
I wrote over 350000 words of CSI and Criminal Minds fanfic until my mother recovered.
There was no pressure, you see? No real stress and I always got positive reviews.
I have since made the big move to original fiction, but in doing fanfic I could practice the skills I was learning in my Fiction class at college (was enrolled during my mother's illness). Particularly, staying in character. I'd put the fanfic characters into situations and would try to keep them true to the characters on the actual episodes. I practiced building suspense and tension and longer story lines.
I also wrote my first novel-length pieces in fanfiction.
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Bridget--aka fotobridget2 on ff.net