Patreon Panel This Saturday: Comparing and Contrasting Writing Fanfic and Original Fic

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This Saturday at 8 a.m. we’ll be hosting our Patreon panel for April 2026: Writing Fanfiction, Writing Original Fiction: Similarities and Differences. We’ll be joined by a group of authors mostly located outside the US – Neo Scarlett, J. D. Rivers, Vee Sloane, Dei Walker, and MJ Kiwiana – to compare and contrast our experiences in writing fanfiction and original fiction!

Description: Views on how similar writing fanfiction is to writing original fiction vary widely, and form a spectrum ranging from peoplew who feel that writing fanfic and writing ofic are completely different exercises to whose who believe that writing each is identical. As with most continua, the reality of similarities and differences is more nuanced in the majority of cases, with how they are alike and how they differ depending on the writer, the style, the genre, and other variables. In this panel, we’ll look at these intersections to discuss where we fall personally in our views, how we find writing fanfic and ofic to be similar, how we find it to be different, what skills we’ve found portable across the two, and which we haven’t.

If you’re already a backer at the $7/month level, I hope you’ll join us, and if not – back our Patreon at the $7/month level or higher and join us LIVE for this panel to chat and ask your questions. Better yet, you’ll also get access to the recordings of the 19 (!!!) previous panels we’ve held!