Find the home for the other polls for Walter Dornez of the Emblem right here at the forum! (I totally didn't make a whole bunch of polls without knowing how to post them, and panicked as I created this one)

It's hard to make something when you don't want to...

That my fellow humans is words that any creator should live by. Whether you draw, write, sing-- basically do anything that requires you to create something, do it because you want to and because you have a passion for it.

You cannot hope to create something good if you aren't willing to put everything into it.

So never start a story without a passion for the story, that's how a permanent hiatus is born.

Greetings! I am a Wizard that can't name things, or WizardCantNameThings. I don't know what the hell I'm doing right now, as it is 7:10 A.M. at the moment I am writing this, and I have stayed up all night. Might as well do something!

February 10, 2018

Don't sell your soul to the Flying Spaghetti Monstee of the Pastafarian religion. Especially don't sell your soul in order to be able to write faster...

Let's just say that it's difficult to get your soul back from said beastie...

May 1, 2018

What's the difference between making a fan fiction and a story? Well, let me be more specific: what is the difference between a fan fiction and an original work? In my opinion, as someone who has made his own stories, fan fiction is more difficult to write than an original story.

I probably lost a couple of you there. Some of you are probably going, "but Mister Wizard, fan fiction involves stuff that's already made! How is making something yourself easier than writing something using another person's characters?" Well that's just it, my friend! The character's you use in fanfic a aren't yours, unless they're an OC.

With your own characters, you can make everything up yourself. You have the freedom to make what you want. With fan fiction, not so much. You're borrowing characters, places, and ideas from another person and building a story around them. Everything you write is based off another person.

So how does this make fan fiction difficult to write?

The best Fanfiction writers, in my opinion, are the one's that are faithful to the source material. They try not to stray too far into the realm of OOC. They write the stories that make people think, "I wish this were canon" or "Everyone seems so in character". They are the ones that stir the imagination, and allow people to create their own headcanon. Everything that a good fan fiction writer creates gives the reader a chance to feel like they were reading something official, something the author/creator of the original story would write.

A Fan fiction writer has to channel the source material to a degree. They have to know the character's they're writing for inside and out. They need to be to make it believable. It's no wonder the best fan fiction comes from those who love the source material dearly.

People scoff at us fan fiction writers, call us a bunch of nerds that are engrossed in a dreamland. They say fan fiction is only written by novices who can't write; that most of it is badly written smut and the like.

Well, I disagree entirely.

There's a lot of bad fan fiction out there, but there's also a ton of amazing fan fiction. Stories that exceed the original story.