For me the difference is sort of like that, but also like . . . there's shit I write for my own work that might even HAVE character growth and so on, but it's not . . . real, something about it isn't how things would REALLY WORK OUT, in real life, for one reason or another.
Sometimes it's like "I could see someone writing a fic about this, and I can see why, but I as the author know that actually if you put Bob in a cab and made him have this convo he'd murder someone, because I know Bob, but I sort of have this WISHFUL THINKING version of reality where Bob gets his head out of his ass instead and - " etc.
Sometimes it's all the way thru to fluffy AUs because who doesn't want to see Serious Business people in a high-school AU? :P
Part of that is for me that my stories are very organic and when I try to make them not be is when they break and I stop being able to write them, especially not as Full Stories (as opposed to random scenes), so.
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Sometimes it's like "I could see someone writing a fic about this, and I can see why, but I as the author know that actually if you put Bob in a cab and made him have this convo he'd murder someone, because I know Bob, but I sort of have this WISHFUL THINKING version of reality where Bob gets his head out of his ass instead and - " etc.
Sometimes it's all the way thru to fluffy AUs because who doesn't want to see Serious Business people in a high-school AU? :P
Part of that is for me that my stories are very organic and when I try to make them not be is when they break and I stop being able to write them, especially not as Full Stories (as opposed to random scenes), so.