In the last week and a half, I’ve been writing… fan fiction.
Yes, I admit. I started writing a few months ago, and last week I decided to start dabbling in fan fiction as a way to write something steadily to make sure I churn out at least a thousand or more words a day, and a way of writing something where I don’t have to design the world and the characters. Something that can be relatively character driven, so I can just churn out a chapter without much planning ahead of time.
I can see why people get caught up in it. It’s easy to find fans and immediate responses to your work that way, even if it doesn’t mean a whole lot in the long run. For me, I’m treating it more as a writing exercise. I think I’m going to start planning and plotting for a story that I can crank out this easily and this fast, and try to have all the planning done and ready for November. So if I can get into the swing of churning out this many words a day (last night I churned out about 4000 in the span of three hours.) maybe I can actually participate in NaNoWriMo this year.