Some of you know this already, but the reason I started writing Star Wars fanfiction was because I was working on a novel for years and it was making me feel insane. The MC was a character I created as a teen and was also the center of many a maladaptive daydream back when I used that as a coping mechanism. I had fleshed her and the characters around her out over the course of many years and had a lot of trouble murdering my darlings as they say (not literally—one of those characters does, in fact, get murdered, but the fact that they get murdered is actually possibly one of those darlings).
Anyway, I took a look at some of that old writing and…look, some of it is very bad. My fanfiction is better than a huge chunk of it. There’s a lot of melodrama when my intent was to tell a pretty grounded story. But the core concept is actually…pretty good? And I do like most of the characters and their dynamics.
I…may try to do something with this. Maybe.
