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As the title says doesn't have to be about TTRPGs either. I searched the first page; 0 of 100 seems like a thread is calling. An introduction too!
Hi there, hello I'm a fanfic writer and reader. I wondered if anyone else reads/writes them. I found the community to be very open and welcoming, no matter the fandom. It'd be awesome to blend these hobbies together somehow.
So I get distracted easily and like to believe I can multitask. I want to write about Pathfinder or DnD but have no idea where to start; if anyone has tips leave them here.
Anyways enough about me! What do you write/read? Working on anything right now?
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I write Planescape fanfic (mostly based around one of my home games and characters developed therein). My storyhour based on that campaign is somewhere north of 2 million words long at this point and still ongoing.
That fanfic is also how I got noticed in the first place before getting my first paid gigs in writing for ttRPGs back in 2003 or so.
As much as some elitists might unfairly critique fanfic (or really all genre fiction) as something less than "literature", I vehemently disagree and I find fanfic writing to be just a joy to write as a leisure activity in and of itself, and also a wonderful training exercise to help you improve your writing skills in prep for paid work elsewhere.
Here's one Planescape-related story I wrote: Based on one of the baernaloths from my home game
And here's the main Planescape storyhour of mine It is very very long
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I've read a few fanfics or campaign narratives here and there, and I've written enough cutscenes for my home campaigns that they probably edge into fanficness.
The best TTRPG fanfic I have ever read, by a considerable margin, is the 40k All Guardsmen Party.
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I restarted writing long form fiction after a really long break from it using fanfic as the gateway. Sadly, I never finished the long multi-chapter fanfics I planned, but it at least helped me get back into plotting.
Moved onto Nanowrimo after, which I finished the novel of, but didn't get around to editing. Then I self-published a DnD adventure, aaand that opened a lot of opportunities into more writing for TTRPG. So many that I currently don't quite have enough spoons left for writing fanfics. :P Which is unfortunate, as that did distance me a bit from a fanfic writing group I got to know very well.
