fanfic question

[buffyaddict13]

Poll fanfic EDIT: TO CLARIFY, I STARTED THE FIC IN 2008 OR SO AND POSTED 4 PARTS. I THINK MAYBE 7 PEOPLE READ IT. SO I'D BE PULLING A FEW SCENES OUT BETWEEN 2 CHARACTERS AND REWRITING AND STICKING THEM IN A NEW FIC. OH, AND ONE OF THE CHARACTERS WOULD BECOME SOMEONE ELSE. if i even bother to try and do this.

Comments

[manekikoneko]

Many popular authors reuse huge chunks of books they've already published.

[thatgirlsix]

Hiya honey. MWAH!

So ... no. It's not. Particularly if it's something we haven't seen before. Here's the thing: whether we're conscious of it or not, we all reuse things we've done. Whether it's that one perfect phrase we wrote once or a scene we just love to recreate, we all do it. Hell, even Aaron Sorkin does it, and I pretty much worship the quicksand the man built his castle on.

Reuse. Recycle. ;-)

[honorh]

I recycle fics all the time. Caveat, though: I never reuse anything I've actually posted. If one's sitting on my hard drive doing nothing, though, and I figure out part of it can be used for something else, it's fair game.

[liliaeth]

As long as it's your own fic you're using parts of, then I don't see what the problem is. In fact it means that those parts of fic aren't lost and become part of something new.

[girlfan1979]

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