My attitude on writing has always been threefold. Any fictional work you read should be able to take you away from reality one paragraph at a time. You should be able to have an emotional response to the story or characters completely regardless of whether you have known that feeling before or not. And, it should be good for you. If that’s by teaching you something, making you think, or just taking you away from other situations in life that trouble you.
The first two items I can strive for, the third is primarily up to you, the reader. But what they can do is let you be another person, a character, as you hear their thoughts and say their words. They can make you laugh, tug your heart, and give you a little vacation.
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Isis CW (my favorite Gundam Wing fanfic writer)
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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.
That awkward moment when Neil Gaiman wrote a Gollum/Smeagol slash fiction
“Oh, the preciouss, we takes it our handssses and we rubs it and touchess it, gollum….no, Smeagol musst not touch the preciousss, the master said only he can touch the precioussss…. bad masster, he doess not know the precious like we does, no, gollum, and we wants it, we wants it hard in our handses, yesss…”
LIFE. WHAT IS IT.
see the whole post here.
mostlyyes:
Cthulhu fan-fic by Neil Gaiman.
because once in his life, Neil Gaiman wrote a fan fic too. :D
YES. I updated my semi-abandoned fanfic two days ago at the office. Really, I’m not planning to continue this, but some peeps who’re still reviewing, favoriting, and subscribing for alerts make it hard for me to let it go. :/
