But imagine if you were contractually obligated to take the very first fiction you ever wrote and make a seven-book series out of it!

A co-worker of mine recently shared some of her fanfiction with me. It's het, SGA crossed over with a series I've never watched, very much Not My Kind Of Thing, but the thing that really struck me was that her fantasy John Sheppard is a very confident dommy straight guy, while the fantasy Sheppard in my neck of fandom was the Tragedy Of The Closet.