Fifty Shades and Profiting Off Fanfic
The Associated Press had a story a few days ago about how Fifty Shades of Grey has its own fanfiction now, and it was a pretty interesting story. It brought to mind a rant on a fan fic rant community …
Tag: fanfiction
Curious about part of Exeter?
I promise, I haven’t died. I’ve been juggling a few extra balls the past several weeks and one of the side effects has been a lack of blogging. I’ve got one particular aspect that should play itself out in the …
Experimenting With Writing Techniques
Hi, my name is Jennie. And I write fanfiction. I’m not supposed to say that. “Real” writers don’t write fanfiction — and if they do, they don’t admit it. Literary writers certainly don’t. I can see the head of the …
Indie publishing, fanfiction and Lawrence Block’s ‘Sunday Writer’
So for those who missed it, yesterday Time posted a piece on fanfiction, hooked on the final Harry Potter movie release. It was fairly extensive, and was a balanced look at something that normally flies under the radar. But it …
Fanfic writing thoughts
Since I’m on a writing roll, here are some thoughts from earlier yesterday I originally posted at the NFA forums. I’m hoping to come back to a couple of these later today to expand on them. On original characters: This …