I used to do some fanfic on commission, but I gradually phased it out. Writing fanfic has always been really hard for me, and the sheer effort of research was a pain. (But then, fandoms I can write for has very little overlap with fandoms I actually LIKE, something that seems to be really alien to folks.) It just wasn't worth it.
That said, I tried to focus on properties that were old, small, from a different country, or otherwise unlikely to get chased after--like that time I wrote King's Quest V fic involving a character who only appears for one screen. But still, it just seemed like playing with fire, and I decided to GTFO.
I also ended up pay-walling a lot of my work for harassment concerns. Sad, I know, but making someone pay to read my comic instantly weeded out pretty much all the trolls, while posting my work for free tended to be... kinda harrowing. Online, anyway. My fiction has generally been okay to post for free reading, though, thank god. I LIKE making my work as freely accessible as possible; it's important to me. But I also like eating and not getting trolled within an inch of my life.
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Date: 2019-02-11 08:43 pm (UTC)That said, I tried to focus on properties that were old, small, from a different country, or otherwise unlikely to get chased after--like that time I wrote King's Quest V fic involving a character who only appears for one screen. But still, it just seemed like playing with fire, and I decided to GTFO.
I also ended up pay-walling a lot of my work for harassment concerns. Sad, I know, but making someone pay to read my comic instantly weeded out pretty much all the trolls, while posting my work for free tended to be... kinda harrowing. Online, anyway. My fiction has generally been okay to post for free reading, though, thank god. I LIKE making my work as freely accessible as possible; it's important to me. But I also like eating and not getting trolled within an inch of my life.