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I've always been a bit bothered by another M/M Romance author's bit of advice that given to me during a chat. The advice was basically this: Don't tell anyone you wrote fanfiction.
Now, as an M/M Romance author who got started in this business by writing Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction and has used this fact as much as possible to let my fanfiction readers know that - hey, I have some original published stories, too, and they're a lot better than the fanfiction stories - I can't let myself really believe this is good advice. It seems to me if someone likes your fanfiction stories, then they'd probably like your original published stories, which are quite often a hell of a lot more polished and professionally edited. For me, I look at the fanfiction as fun free reads. And I loved writing them. I got to have fun with someone else's characters and quite frankly, the whole episode taught me a ton about how to write and what readers wanted to read.
And to tell you the truth? I'm proud of my fanfiction stories. Sure, there was a lot of head hopping, typos and the like. But people expect that sort of thing in fanfiction. Sometimes, I almost feel as if there's a lot more freedom in fanfiction. I can test a few things out and see if I'm wacked for writing something like that or maybe it's the best idea ever. (I'm liking that term, best XXX ever lately, LOL).
We as published writers need to promote about as much as we need to write good stories and to think we shouldn't use that avenue of ourselves to promote our work just seems... wrong. I know I've read some pretty damn good fiction on fanfiction.net and adultfanfiction.net. So to think that all that literature out there on those sites is bad writing, well, I don't subscribe to that view. And if you're a published author and want to write a bit of it for fun, why not? And why not promote it as yours?
What do you think? How do you other authors feel about this issue? And yep, if you look to the right there in my links, you'll find my fanfiction.net site and can read all my fanfiction stories if you're so inclined
Now, as an M/M Romance author who got started in this business by writing Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction and has used this fact as much as possible to let my fanfiction readers know that - hey, I have some original published stories, too, and they're a lot better than the fanfiction stories - I can't let myself really believe this is good advice. It seems to me if someone likes your fanfiction stories, then they'd probably like your original published stories, which are quite often a hell of a lot more polished and professionally edited. For me, I look at the fanfiction as fun free reads. And I loved writing them. I got to have fun with someone else's characters and quite frankly, the whole episode taught me a ton about how to write and what readers wanted to read.
And to tell you the truth? I'm proud of my fanfiction stories. Sure, there was a lot of head hopping, typos and the like. But people expect that sort of thing in fanfiction. Sometimes, I almost feel as if there's a lot more freedom in fanfiction. I can test a few things out and see if I'm wacked for writing something like that or maybe it's the best idea ever. (I'm liking that term, best XXX ever lately, LOL).
We as published writers need to promote about as much as we need to write good stories and to think we shouldn't use that avenue of ourselves to promote our work just seems... wrong. I know I've read some pretty damn good fiction on fanfiction.net and adultfanfiction.net. So to think that all that literature out there on those sites is bad writing, well, I don't subscribe to that view. And if you're a published author and want to write a bit of it for fun, why not? And why not promote it as yours?
What do you think? How do you other authors feel about this issue? And yep, if you look to the right there in my links, you'll find my fanfiction.net site and can read all my fanfiction stories if you're so inclined
FREE READ at Amazon until Tuesday
Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note to let you all know that I've released a Yaoi, M/M short story over at Amazon that is FREE until Tuesday. The name of the book is, Night Swimming. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JKKPHFE
Hope you all enjoy it:)
Three new M/M Romance Stories Planned
I’m on a roll! I’ve got some new stories planned and one is inspired by the dude I drew on the left there. That’s the main character for my next full-length novel, Finding Human and his name is Lucian. I’ve also added him to my art page. The next one, Night Swimming is a short story I plan on doing for a fun free read. And the last one, The Bonds of Family, will be my third and last book in my In Life and Blood trilogy. I just hope I can hold myself to these dates…
Title: Finding Human
Genre: Yaoi Infused M/M Romance – Fantasy
Length: 90,000 Words
Release Date: Late Fall, 2014
Blurb: Mankind has stre
Famous Yaoi First Encounters - What's Too Soon and
So this blog post was inspired by this funny Yaoi motivational poster I found on DeviantArt: Yaoi Motivational Poster by SpirosDyingWish00
The poster made me think about all the standard, somewhat cliche first encounters we see in Yaoi - yes, the tripping into someone, the getting drunk, the angry slap followed by kiss, the OMG, you kissed me now I'm going to rape you. Most of which involve the two heros in a compromising close proximity to each other and the "aha!" moment. Oh, how we love these scenes, wait in high anticipation of them and squee with joy when they finally happen, LOL.
I suppose these things happen in a good het romance as
Should a M/M Romance writers take a male pen name?
Wow, this is a tough topic these days. I just found out about AJ Llewellyn being a woman. Yes, a woman, not the gay man she pretended to be.
We both started out at eXtasy Books writing M/M Romance, though I prefer to write more of the Yaoi variety:) I've had plenty of banter back and forth with AJ about writing, the M/M genre and the like and I must say I feel a bit... shocked. I know that women have taken male pen names in times past in order to get published and all that. And I know that some female M/M Romance authors have male pen names currently and keep hush about their true identity. I suppose it is no one's business but their own. Or
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I really can't see the big problem in your readers knowing you wrote fanfiction, what great sin is in it?
It all helps one to evolve ones language and writing style, and you have the freedom to try out a lot
of different things as you say. I find it fun to go back and read my old fics and then notice how much
I've improved through the years.
I'm not planing on becoming an author myself, but if, then I wouldn't hide the fact that it all started
with me writing fanfictions, wanting to have certain characters to live out a fantasy in my head written
down on paper. I too, like you, am proud of my stories, however crappy the earlier ones might be xD
It all helps one to evolve ones language and writing style, and you have the freedom to try out a lot
of different things as you say. I find it fun to go back and read my old fics and then notice how much
I've improved through the years.
I'm not planing on becoming an author myself, but if, then I wouldn't hide the fact that it all started
with me writing fanfictions, wanting to have certain characters to live out a fantasy in my head written
down on paper. I too, like you, am proud of my stories, however crappy the earlier ones might be xD