Impie
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My approach to fanfiction has always been to figure out what narrative genre best suits the characters, settings, and overall premise of the videogame in question. Then I read examples of those genres to get a feel for how it's done, and try to produce something along the same lines. Write a Megaman fanfic reminiscent of Isaac Asimov, or a Wolfenstein fanfic in the style of Alistair MacLean. Then just make sure all the original game elements are in there, or at least put a unique spin on them.
I'm writing my novella, Knee Deep in the Dead, with H. P. Lovecraft in mind, so it's written in the form of a document recovered from the scene of a disaster, which details a first-person account of supernatural horror.
But yeah, if you write a fanfic of Doom, you have to write it like you'd write anything else. You won't get far with a few sentences about killing stuff. You need something more cerebral.
Then again, I couldn't tell you how many readers actually enjoy one or two paragraphs of summarized bloodshed. Might be a booming market, for all I know.
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