It is my dream to be a published author (because I'm an idiot, I guess), but I tend to view fan fiction as practice---like in the Renaissance, when apprentices would practice their masters' styles before creating their own. I know I started learning how to write dialogue through fan fiction when I was 15, and it later gave me an advantage when I took creative writing classes. Fan fiction is a way of learning honing the craft, if a writer chooses to view it that way.
But yeah, BNFs cannot get published through their fan fiction readers alone. You write your fan fiction, enjoy the compliments, then move on to your original work and working the publishing system, like you said. But if you can write good stuff based on other people's characters, there's probably some chance you can do that with your own.
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Date: 2011-12-04 05:18 am (UTC)But yeah, BNFs cannot get published through their fan fiction readers alone. You write your fan fiction, enjoy the compliments, then move on to your original work and working the publishing system, like you said. But if you can write good stuff based on other people's characters, there's probably some chance you can do that with your own.