Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is a term that describes authors’ creative writing that uses pre-existing characters from television, movies or other fiction. Usually composed of short stories, fan fiction used to be published in ‘zines and mailed to a small number of subscribers. Today, the Internet allows authors to publish their work to a much wider audience. From Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
The biggest fan fiction site around is FanFiction - unleash your imagination and here is what Daniel thinks of this site:
Everyone who can read has the choice to like or dislike reading. Whatever your feelings are towards reading, I know a website for you. Fanfiction.net has a multitude of stories including stories based on games, movies, cartoons, books and much much more… All the stories are written by different authors and are fantastically edited into masterpieces. Hope you like it! Daniel
We would love to hear what you think of FanFiction.net - some specific examples would be good. Click on COMMENTS below.
Some authors and publishers object to fan fiction being published on the web for copyright reasons. This is a tricky issue. For more information read this page at Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. J. K. Rowling has given her blessing to fan fiction writers, with a couple of provisos, and Mary Hoffman encourages it by publishing fan fiction on her Stravaganza web site.
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June 17th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Excellent work to all the writers of this article!
After reading this article I decided to have a look at many websites that contain ‘Fan Fiction.’ FanFiction.net in particular, contained relative information and short stories appropriated from other author’s works. FanFiction.net remains an excellent website cataloguing many short stories of Anime, Books, Cartoons, Comics, Movies and more. I Highly recommend that you visit this website!
Julian
June 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
This is an interesting article. I do like Fan Fiction in general, as I think it it a good way for amateurs to be read without having to publish. This is also a good way for those who enjoy second opinions or further reading. My only words of caution are to be scrupulous as to the fiction read. As I was (and still am) relatively interested in Harry Potter, I decided to read some Fan Fiction regarding the last book PRIOR to the release date. Amongst the well written stories, badly written - often sexual - fan fiction existed. I advise that any reader should choose a book - or series - that they have liked are taken particular interest in, and read some reviews and Fan Fiction. You would be AMAZED as to the concepts written about!