There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde ( Read more... )

I told my therapist about fan fiction ( Read more... )

So! A couple of weeks ago I posted my first in what will be an intermittent series of why I write slash. One comment I got was from , which, if you've never heard of them, is an "Anti-Oppression Linkspam Community." Their policy is to link to any posts they find-- Well, here, I'll let them speak for themselves ( Read more... )

Two: Why I write slash ( Read more... )

I write slash.

I've been writing slash for a good many years now--about half my life. I first heard about slash in a feminist newspaper, Off Our Backs, which had printed Joanna Russ's essay, Pornography: For Women, By Women, With Love. That was when I discovered that the stories I'd been telling were being told by other women, too. It was ( Read more... )

So, I heard it through the grapevine that all of the yuletide stories are being moved to A3O. I don't move in that circle, so everything I know comes secondhand. I've only ever written one story that's on the yuletide website, a NYR story. It was a whim, and I was still thinking that fandom might work for me ( Read more... )