Let’s start this with a statement: the title of this post in no way references firearms. ATF, FBI, etc – you can sit back and breathe a sigh of relief. I know none of you wanted to visit North Dakota.<\/p>\n
There’s a dirty little secret about fiction writing: what’s released to the world, what’s in your hands, sometimes isn’t what was written.<\/p>\n
Fiction often starts out as something else. The most famous example I can think of, off the top of my head, is\u00a0Fifty Shades of Grey.<\/em> (No, I haven’t read it. No, I don’t intend to read it. No, there are no copies of it in my house.)\u00a0Fifty Shades<\/em> actually started out as fanfiction of the\u00a0Twilight<\/em> series. (Another set of books that have no home in my abode.) It wasn’t until the serial numbers were filed off that it was published as a perfectly legal, very lucrative book.<\/p>\n Dead Man’s Fugue<\/em> and the upcoming sequel,\u00a0Contract Hunt<\/em>, both have some heavy filing marks. Characters in particular were derived from a variety of sources. (People whose characters are “re-imagined”\u00a0pretty much all know about it.) And you know what? It works!<\/p>\n Fanfiction isn’t a bad way to start in this business – just make sure you’ve got a good file, or at least some heavy-duty sandpaper, so you can turn it into something salable.<\/p>\n And thus ends my random thought on writing after a very unproductive day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s start this with a statement: the title of this post in no way references firearms. ATF, FBI, etc – you can sit back and breathe a sigh of relief. I know none of you wanted to visit North Dakota. … Continue reading