Depends on the original. And on the fanfic too, I suppose.
What makes fanfic easier for me than original fic is my entitlement issues: I don't feel half so egotistical in writing fanfic to the demands of a pre-existing audience. Writing original work implies that I think someone should care about my own POV, which the backbrain translates as selfishness and cuts the words off dead. But that's a separate neurosis and shall be told another time, in my own journal.
Apart from that, it's like free verse versus structured verse -- some people find one easier, some the other.
The thing is, it's easier to get away with fanfic that's not done as well and still find that pre-existing audience. There are juried sites and edited zines, but people will read you without them. Whereas original fiction pretty well has to get past a gatekeeper to get anyone's attention.
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Date: 2004-10-20 01:41 pm (UTC)What makes fanfic easier for me than original fic is my entitlement issues: I don't feel half so egotistical in writing fanfic to the demands of a pre-existing audience. Writing original work implies that I think someone should care about my own POV, which the backbrain translates as selfishness and cuts the words off dead. But that's a separate neurosis and shall be told another time, in my own journal.
Apart from that, it's like free verse versus structured verse -- some people find one easier, some the other.
The thing is, it's easier to get away with fanfic that's not done as well and still find that pre-existing audience. There are juried sites and edited zines, but people will read you without them. Whereas original fiction pretty well has to get past a gatekeeper to get anyone's attention.