I've only ever written fanfic by fluke. Stories pretty much appear, novella-length, in my brain, and I write them down. One maybe every few years. It's not necessarily related to my favourite media, and I hardly ever write more than one thing in each fandom. It just happens, unbidden. And it tends to be better and flows more naturally than the original stuff I write, which is the kicker.
FWIW, I was part of some toxic fan community stuff back in my X-Files days and I regret it, though granted I don't think I was actually ever publicly mean to anyone or anything like that. More that I looked down on shitty writers and particularly Sues, but that was still shitty of me.
I'm now old and very live-and-let-live about it, and also of the opinion that all writing is fanfic and some is just better attributed than others.
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I've only ever written fanfic by fluke. Stories pretty much appear, novella-length, in my brain, and I write them down. One maybe every few years. It's not necessarily related to my favourite media, and I hardly ever write more than one thing in each fandom. It just happens, unbidden. And it tends to be better and flows more naturally than the original stuff I write, which is the kicker.
FWIW, I was part of some toxic fan community stuff back in my X-Files days and I regret it, though granted I don't think I was actually ever publicly mean to anyone or anything like that. More that I looked down on shitty writers and particularly Sues, but that was still shitty of me.
I'm now old and very live-and-let-live about it, and also of the opinion that all writing is fanfic and some is just better attributed than others.