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On the upside: I think I've managed to kick the writer's block with my novel rewrite, and all it took was deleting like two and a half pages of a scene that wasn't working and rewriting it.

On the downside, I'm pretty sure I've just discovered that I'm going to have to kill a character I really don't want to kill to make the rest of the story work. :(

...is it permitted to write fanfic of your own original fiction where someone who died For Plot Reasons survives?

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From:

doughtier

What happens if you look into alternatives for that character that are neither Life As Before and Death? Maybe they can go jump sharks!

From:

glorious_spoon

Elaborately fake their death and run off to join the circus!

(I need the Death Pathos, unfortunately. But I do have the universe written in such a way that resurrection is possible, so there's always that)

From:

snickfic

You know what, about 90% of the time when I suddenly get stuck on a story, it's because the last thing I wrote was wrong. Congrats on getting unstuck!

Oh dear to your character, though. D:

From:

glorious_spoon

Same, honestly. And I always seem to forget that until I get frustrated and just delete a week's worth of work, and then it's like '.....OH. That's better.'

From:

yalumesse

I remember reading something once about how Jane Austen and everyone before computers had to write every draft by starting again, which makes perfect sense when I think about it, but I'd never really considered that what I do most of the time is just edit the same one draft over and over. But clearing the page and starting again sometimes makes so much new and better stuff... but it's really hard to 'throw away' (even if it's saved in another file) all that stuff. Feels like the time was wasted? I think?

Absolutely is! You'll have the very first fic in its AO3 tag.

From:

glorious_spoon

:D I'm actually rewriting the whole thing for the second draft, and it's kind of amazing how much of a difference it makes; a lot of my problem is that I'm kind of new at writing long-form original fiction, so there's a lot of stuff that needed to be completely redone for the story to work.

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yalumesse

That's great that it's changing! But I hear you, long form is hard as. There's so much to juggle and keep in mind and it's a lot of time taken up in planning and writing, it's easy to burn out. I've abandoned a few long stories. But finishing one is such an amazing feeling.

From:

minoanmiss

Of course its permitted. If I can write an AU of an AU story you can certainly write fanfic of your own words..

From:

glorious_spoon

:D I remember there was a writer in HP fandom who wrote like six different AU's of her own AU, and each one was a fully realized fictional universe. It was kind of amazing.