I'm a fan fiction writer.
There, I said it.
I started writing fan fiction because it sounded like an interesting idea. It was a writing exercise, take an idea and write 1,500 words on it a day. Take someone else's characters and world and use them as a writing prompt and just go. And it came with a ready-made community for feedback.*
It's not something I talk about often because when I do game I tend to game with real, honest-to-god, published writers who churn out original plots and stories and characters in amazing ways. Somehow by comparison what I do does not seem really real, even though more and more I'm creating original worlds and ideas and characters and I'm just borrowing someone elses to get a look at my world through their familiar eyes so I can better understand my own creation.
And it's fun.
So to add to the completion list this year the roughly 230,000 words I turned into stories. Given the ideal novel length of 80,000 words that puts me at just under three so far and I'll likely make three by New Years.
Not counting RPG time, which sucked down most of the spring.
Now if I could turn this commercially viable I'd be golden.
If you do wander this way and you are at all interested I present you with:
Hunger - which is an interesting novella about the lengths people will go to cope with an abusive family member
The Infected - A chunk of supernatural sci-fi.
The Island - A look at what love is and why we need it so badly at times
The First Run - An alternate history piece set five minutes in the future. This one I am particularly fond of since it will be spun off into a wholly original work if I can get it together in the new year.
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*And when the author of one of the stories you were hiving off of tells you you did well with their material it's kind of amazing. That happened here.
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