Recommended Reading
Time magazine has an article on fanfiction that, I must say, is fabulous. I would recommend it for anyone of you who writes fanfic. Also, for anyone who has ever wondered why you write fanfic, direct them here:
The Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman
It's definitely an article that portrays and explains fanfic in a positive light. Why we do it. What it is. It even defends fanfic writers to a certain degree. I felt like the article was by a person who really got the fanfic culture.
“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
"Fanfic writing isn't work, it's joyful play," she says. "The problem is that for most people, any kind of writing looks like work to them, so they get confused why anyone would want to write fanfic instead of original professional material, even though they don't have any problem understanding why someone would want to mess around on a guitar playing Simon and Garfunkel."
The Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman
It's definitely an article that portrays and explains fanfic in a positive light. Why we do it. What it is. It even defends fanfic writers to a certain degree. I felt like the article was by a person who really got the fanfic culture.
“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
"Fanfic writing isn't work, it's joyful play," she says. "The problem is that for most people, any kind of writing looks like work to them, so they get confused why anyone would want to write fanfic instead of original professional material, even though they don't have any problem understanding why someone would want to mess around on a guitar playing Simon and Garfunkel."