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What's it like to give up a character?
Do you simply walk away, content that you had a friend and knowing there's a new one around the corner? Pure and never used before.
Or is it more like a funeral where you commemorate the person to a better place, knowing you can never use them again? Covered with dirt. Broken.
Do you keep them in the place you had them, knowing they'll never continue to grow or develop but writing them anyway? It seems like another death - little ones, over and over again.
This is why fanfic is wrong. Not because you're using someone else's characters or plot or settings. It's because the real author dictates what the character does. She didn't consult me!!
Now to find myself again...
Do you simply walk away, content that you had a friend and knowing there's a new one around the corner? Pure and never used before.
Or is it more like a funeral where you commemorate the person to a better place, knowing you can never use them again? Covered with dirt. Broken.
Do you keep them in the place you had them, knowing they'll never continue to grow or develop but writing them anyway? It seems like another death - little ones, over and over again.
This is why fanfic is wrong. Not because you're using someone else's characters or plot or settings. It's because the real author dictates what the character does. She didn't consult me!!
Now to find myself again...
