This lady at Georgetown is doing her masters' thesis on fan fiction, take a few minutes and take her survey:

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In Praise of Fanfic-An article by a professional writer.

"Some fanfic is great-there's plenty of Buffy fanfic that trumps the official, licensed tie-in novels" Yeah...like all the writers on my f-list :)

I'm trying to cut back on my fan fiction reading. It's taking over my life and I could be spending my time on much better things. So I'm cutting a few friends that I friended primarily for their writing. I'm not cutting everyone, but a few. If you regularly write PG-13 and lower rated fic, you stay. If most of your stuff is R rated and higher or ( Read more... )

I'm a bit of a fan fic addit. Okay, so there's nothing 'bit' about it. I love reading fan fiction. I've meant to do the first portion of this rant for some time, the later portion has just come up in the last several weeks.

Note: This is not directed to any of the fan fic writers on my f-list. You're there for a good reason, one of which being ( Read more... )