Suggested Reading
Articles, essays, etc. that I find interesting or thought provoking.
I followed this article from another author's profile, and thought all LOTR fanfiction authors should read this. I love the Devil's Advocate position on this one.
Nearly snorted into my morning cereal when I was flipping through The Wall Street Journal and came across this serious treatment of fictional characters and their real-life psychological issues. Not to mention a serious publication tackled the elephant-in-the-room of all the phallic imagery in Harry Potter.
An interesting debate has been brewing on the interwebs about fanfiction, and what the opinions of the author's themselves are about how we play in their sandboxes. Here is George R.R. Martin's opinion on why he doesn't like the phenomenon.
Ever wondered just how many 'respectable' works are a form of fanfiction? Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or Wide Sargasso Sea in the literature arena, "RENT" in (movie) musicals, and "Pretty Woman" in movies? Well, as a means to make a point bookshop