I think a few people mentioned how it was too difficult for them to write fic in their native tongue, but I'm too lazy to look for them (285 comments ... that's a lot). lian said she might write a round-up post for them.

And yes, I think the same goes for German soaps as well. There are 16 fics on ff.de for Verbotene Liebe, but the soap already has a fanlore entry for some reason.

Whenever I look for long plotty Harry/Draco fic in German, I either end up finding translated English fic or fics by this one particular author that I hate. *sigh* I wish there were proper reclists.