>You be a novice author.
>You write a novel.
>Get published to critical acclaim.
>Be on the best-seller's list for weeks.
>Smash hit with both kids and adults.
>Get to do readings, book signings, etc.
>Publisher wants moar, start typing up moar.
>Discover fanfiction of your series.
How do you react? Pic unrelated.
What type of fan fiction is it?
Crossover? Shipfic? Something else?
>roll eyes
>close tab
>>7408055
Fanfiction in general. So yes, crossovers, shipfics, AUs, BL, you name it. It's probably been written.
>>7408039
>Discover fanfiction of your series
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
>shipfic
>masturbate
Cease & Desist from this faggotry at once.
Regards,
Moses Shekelburg, esq
>>7408039
Wouldn't give a fuck. Too busy living life to
peruse random fan-fics.
I'd probably be flattered by some, creeped out by others, and worry that certain of them would be better than my work
>>7408039
>write characters that will deliberately get fetish fanfiction written about them
>Become a famous author just to jack off.
>>7408039
I've seen authors say they don't read fan fiction for legal reasons. Even if it's unconscious, it's really bad if you write something that ends up similar to a fanfic. It's best to just avoid them altogether.
>>7408132
This. Everyone else in this thread is a worrywart, fanfic is just new sincerity at its finest.
>>7408039
Honestly I'd just be happy something I made was big enough to warrant fanfiction.
>write your own fanfiction under a psuedonym