For those of you familiar w/ Fanfiction.net, I have a ?

Its just the way the sight is, I dunno. You can have a completely OC based fic with the setting, it has been done. You see that especially with the Warriors series. That setting, the one where you have to choose characters, pertains just to the anime section, if my sources are correct.
Have you tried just skipping that part of the section?

Dude why you wanna know about fanfic? (Genuine question)

Than the characters? well you have a good point.

How's about building the characters history as you go along through a series of books? E.g you find a little about them in books 1, 2, 3 and 4?

I'm gonna let you guys into a trade secret here and tell you that writing fanfiction is one of the most futile and embarrassing things you can do as a writer. It's right there at the bottom of the food chain!

It just screams "I have no original ideas!" and probably lines you up to get sued by money hungry cows like J.K Rowling anyway. Write your own stories with your own characters, that's far more rewarding.

True actually doesn't george lucas get a kick out of sueing people for fan fictioning his work?

Writing fanfiction is something I do when I'm bored, and, if you have writers block, its a good way to get your ideas flowing. There's nothing wrong with writing fanfiction; people do have original ideas, they just use characters from shows, books, ect because people always wonder "what if this had happened instead?" or "What if this was this, or he/she acted like that?"

I think the site only allows you to write a fanfic about something if they're sure the author won't sue and whatnot, but I cannot be sure. Most people put a disclaimer at the beginning of their fanfic chapters.

I do agree that writing a story with your own plot and characters is so much more rewarding, but it doesn't truly give you the right away to say that writing fanfiction is an embarrassing thing to do as a writer. Its a creative way to pass the time, and, in my case, it makes me happy when people enjoy the fanfictions I create. It makes me just that more confident that, if I publish a book, people will enjoy it.

Well what if they did this or that even if you write it differently you don't actually know how it would have gone differently unless you were the owner of it and not writing fanfic.

Its the imagination of the fanfiction writer that spins the 'what if' tales. Of course the fanfiction writer wouldn't know exactly...perhaps the true author wouldn't even know for sure.
A good fanfiction counts on a vivid imagination.

But each character will not play exactly in to your plans as a writer if it was done by the author.

I never said that they would, and I'd never expect them too. Writing, though, is about flexibility and always having a back up plan. If something doesn't fit the way it should, you could size it to the proper proportion, or you could forget about that certain idea entirely, and fall back to idea number two.

Ok atleast it's ever so slightly better than just stealing all of their work entirely.

Ok that doesn't sound too bad but what Ashley's doing sounds horrible she's gonna ruin everything I like about Paolini's work she's proposing the third and final egg has already hatched and that the 5th elder already exists that's just fucking with paolini's story that he took an age to build up!!

Its a roleplay, not a fanfiction. I didn't make it, and I happen to adore Paolini's work. I don't expect you to understand since you can't roleplay worth crap and have no imagination. ^^

When I place OCs in my fanfics, they are never the main character. I place them in to help my stories progress.

This roleplay is a variation of Eragon, like I mentioned before. We changed the storyline so its different than the books, but with the same principles. I am going to say this for a third time since you obviously didn't get it the first time.
I, as in me, did not create, as in make, that roleplay, as in a variation of a story/movie or your very own ideas and creations.

I use a lot of vivid detail in my stories, be it fanfic or my own, about the characters and the settings. I don't find it hard to be descriptive, and I rather like it. The only thing is that I have to shorten them 'cause, if its an assignment for school, they have a limit of the number of pages you can write.


Will you quit harping on me, please? It seems like you loathe me quite a bit, but could you have the decency to keep it to yourself, Vincent?

OI cunt face I can just I don't think you should fuck around with original works you twat bag!
How's about no too you made it personal! You cunt flap!

Well just write in past tense? That may well solve the problem.

Sorry wrong thread