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RokofAges75:
If you have a manuscript good enough to be accepted by a real publishing company, you won't need any money. That's why you should focus on writing a great, correctly-formatted manuscript first.
With the turning a fanfic into an original novel thing, unless you wrote the fanfic as a total AU to begin with, it's probably going to require rewriting. That's what I've found with my stuff, at least. But that's not a bad thing; rewriting gives you a chance to improve the story. It's just time-consuming and usually not as inspiring as writing the story the first time around.
mare:
^ that is very true. It's actually not a fun process at all but it does give you the chance to change things from the original. I changed a lot of stuff for this second one to the point that the fanfic and the new version are pretty different. Not to say that if you read the fanfic, you wouldn't recognize it, but I was able to add on new characters and elements. That part of it is fun, but not the plugging in new names etc... lol
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on September 06, 2010, 02:47:23 PM ---^ that is very true. It's actually not a fun process at all but it does give you the chance to change things from the original. I changed a lot of stuff for this second one to the point that the fanfic and the new version are pretty different. Not to say that if you read the fanfic, you wouldn't recognize it, but I was able to add on new characters and elements. That part of it is fun, but not the plugging in new names etc... lol
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OMG the plugging in new names is a pain in the ass lol. Cause you rewrite it still picturing BSB since that's who you had in mind for it...
I was de-fanficing a story I did. I quit cause personally I feel I'm at a place where I can produce something better if I want to get published. But it's not an easy thing to do.
RokofAges75:
Ditto. I thought I was gonna spend this summer rewriting Broken an original novel. I've started it twice, but for as inspired as I was the whole time I was writing the fanfic originally, I just couldn't sustain that same level of inspiration for the novel version. I'm taking it as a sign that it's not meant to be, at least not now. Instead, I started two very fanfic-y fanfics and had a blast writing those all summer LOL.
mare:
LOL it was quite the fun writing summer! Although I did spend all summer defanficing <-- love that word Shadow Woods. I am glad i'm all done but not really. Now comes the fun stupid part of reformatting it, numbering pages, places Shadow Woods in the corner of every page.
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