From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/3/15 9:40 PM, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > I was wondering who'd committed fan fiction (and was willing to confess) and   
   what effect you think it had on your writing ability and career?   
   >   
      
   	I'm well-known in that area, along with my wife. It taught me to write   
   well enough to get published.   
      
   > Also... what property engaged you enough to make you crazy enough to write   
   in that world?   
      
   	I don't see it as crazy. 	   
      
   	Varies. There's some that's more anti-Fan fic than fanfic -- i.e., I   
   HATED something so much about the story that I HAD to fix it, make sense   
   of it.   
      
   	My early Trek and comic-fics were more practice and wish-fulfillment   
   than anything.   
      
   	For Saint Seiya, which my wife and I wrote over a million words of fic   
   for, it was the fact that the series ENDED at a particularly annoying   
   place, and we started developing an extrapolation of the world that led   
   to interesting places, and eventually incorporated both Samurai Troopers   
   and Dragonball Z. Plus it was our first shared fandom, when we were just   
   dating, and so there was a lot of our own emotional development involved.   
      
   	Other fics had other motivations or specific interests.   
      
      
   >  Did you just love the setting that much to want to play in it with a new   
   cast, or was it the characters you wanted to see more of?  Something else?   
   >   
      
   	I'm more a concept guy; there would be a logical contradiction, an   
   interesting extension, or some other element that led me to say "what   
   if..." and work from there. Kathy was more the character person.   
      
   	I still write fic occasionally, usually just small pieces, but I have   
   some that I poke at from time to time that are pretty large.   
      
   	I've written *MUCH* more extensively about this on my blog, if anyone's   
   interested:   
      
   http://grandcentralarena.com/musings-on-fanfiction-part-1-my-experiences/   
      
      
      
      
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