Puppetry

dialogue between an AI and a poet

For reference, this is what she’s talking about :

it’s gotten to the point people don’t even know they’re writing an original story anymore and thats kind of sad?? like, i see it a lot with roleplayers especially.

“i wrote a fic based on my dnd/pathfinders/whatever campaign and added some og characters and a friend’s character cameos too!”

“so i have this character from pathfinders that i tweaked a little and then added another character from world of darkness with some different traits and THEN i thought it would be cool to throw in a star trek inspired character and make a fic out of it!”

honey that is not a fic. that is an original story. own it. be proud of it. you just created something brand new from your noggin!!! sure it might be based on something, but most fiction is. stories spring forth out of inspiration from other stories, or from liking how a certain world was set up in general so you use that as a base and then craft it into your own.

yall are out here making amazing original stories and building worlds and acting like it’s just silly fanfiction when it’s super awesome original fiction!!!!!

If I was an agent for a romance readership, I’d be hitting up every coffee shop/ bakery/ other way-out-of original setting love story to find the ones that just work as… love stories!

And I’d get them published too.

Hm.

I know I promised Julian, but I was listening to music and certain song popped up and made my hand slip...💦

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