Nope, I can't do it. Makes me mad. Feels wrong to do it.
Because then I try to make it my own thing and that makes me feel like I'm disrespecting the original work. So I'm making my own world to write stories in. My own races, currencies, laws, religion, everything I'm building from the ground up. To make sure I'm constantly working on it I'm also making a novel and a Pen and Paper RPG based in it.
I figure if I make something huge like say Middle Earth or 40k (I love loads of lore) if somebody ever decided to write fanfiction in it they can keep it relatively self contained.
40k fanfics are the only ones I find I can kind of digest. Kind of. Kinda picky in that regard.
Because then I try to make it my own thing and that makes me feel like I'm disrespecting the original work. So I'm making my own world to write stories in. My own races, currencies, laws, religion, everything I'm building from the ground up. To make sure I'm constantly working on it I'm also making a novel and a Pen and Paper RPG based in it.
I figure if I make something huge like say Middle Earth or 40k (I love loads of lore) if somebody ever decided to write fanfiction in it they can keep it relatively self contained.
40k fanfics are the only ones I find I can kind of digest. Kind of. Kinda picky in that regard.