Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

 Are you planning on publishing your most recent WiP? if so, how?

I finished and posted the Mad Max crossover and am back to picking gingerly at a WiP I was horrified to discover I hadn't touched for over a year! It's a heavily-smutty piece based on the characters played by people I've actually met and interacted with so HAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO that is never getting published, to put it mildly. It would be difficult to even file off the serial numbers--I could do it, but it would be a struggle. So fic it remains.

Have you ever filed off the serial numbers and turned a fanfic into something publishable? Obviously in some cases it doesn't even need to be deftly done, as 50 Shades of Gray's former life as a Twilight fanfic proved. Would your current WiP work that way or not?

Comments

[bradygirl_12]

Hopeful about publishing! It's original fic so no filing, but I have some that could be done. Hey, if What's-Her-Name with the sparkling vampires could do it, so can I! :)

[mithen]

Some of your AUs might take well to having the serial numbers filed off! It's a little tough because DC characters especially as SO well-known; it's going to be tough to publish a story about a millionaire crimefighter without being going "Hey, wait..." :)

[bradygirl_12]

I'll have to make him a poverty-stricken crimefighter. :)