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tal0nkarrde
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The e-zine I co-own just posted an article that captures the growth of the fan fiction medium over the years. It's called The Expanding World of Fan Fiction. I mentioned that I would be writing the article and a couple of folks expressed interest in reading it. If you're still interested, you can find it at http://www.g-pop.net/fanfic.htm
I was thinking of writing a follow-up story including the feedback I get in this thread and other threads on other boards about the article. The follow-up would contain excerpts from the statements of the posters stating why they write the fanfic, why they read it and so on. The individual posters would only be identified as their assumed board name and the board they are posting on (Example: Tal0nkarrde from Theforce.net). So please, let me know why you read and/or write fanfic. What makes it special for you? How did you start out? What sort of fanfic do you write? How do you get into writing mode - are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
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I'm always happy to talk about fanfic, but your article link appears to be broken. 
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All fixed now - thanks for telling me! 
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Normally we don't allow threads that advertise non-TF.N sites, nor the solicitation of reviews for those sites.
In this case, as we believe our users would be interested in this discussion, as it realates directly to why we are here, it will be allowed.
Also, please inquire with each user you would like to quote and ask their expressed permission to quote them.
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Okay, I'll bite. I've been trying to get back into hanging around here. 
So please, let me know why you read and/or write fanfic.
For me, mostly, I have always had this over-active imagination that's needed to get out. For example, I'll be driving somewhere and see something that starts me thinking, and then I have to write about it.
As for why I read fanfic, I have always been so bummed when I finish a series and learn there are no more stories about the characters. When I first discovered fanfiction, I was so excited because I could keep reading about people and places that I had come to love. I read fanfic for over two years before I attempted writing it.
What makes it special for you?
I'm not sure. While I've started writing some original stuff, I find I do write a good deal more fanfiction. *shrugs* I'm not sure why, but it's definately part of my life.
How did you start out?
Reading fanfic? I was bored one day and found a link to ffn on bored.com. There were about 300 SW fanfics there at the time (I think I just aged myself.  ). I spent an entire weekend sitting in front of my computer reading. I'm actually not sure how I found tfn. Probably a google search or something. I finally joined because I was reading a story and wanted to tell the author how much I was enjoying it.
As for writing, I wanted to join a "writing club" and one of the stipulations was that you had
to have written something. So I spent about two days working on this viggie, I got myself a beta, and finally posted it. I started my first real fic maybe a month later.
What sort of fanfic do you write?
I write in a number of fandoms. When I'm writing SW stuff, I originally wrote a lot of J/J. Now I write mainly about the characters in the X-wing novels. *shrugs* I go through phases.
How do you get into writing mode
I'm still trying to figure this out. If only I could learn how to turn it on and off when I wanted. haha.
are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
Very much character oriented. I love writing stuff with a lot of character interaction. I tend to drag my feet when I have to write actual action sequences.
EDIT - I had a sentence that didn't make much sense.
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ophelia
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let me know why you read and/or write fanfic.
The strange answer is that I'm not completely sure. I've just always done it. The morning after I saw "A New Hope" back in 1978 (yes, yes, wrong year--it was the Christmas special release) I grabbed a pen and a notepad off my dad's desk and started scrawling. I had to ask how to spell both "Star" and "Wars," so it wasn't much of a story, really. More a graphic novel with random letters on it. My parents thought this was a little strange, but assumed I'd grow out of it.
I like to think I grew out of the random letters part.
All I can say for sure is that I get an "I have to" feeling about certain things, and I need to write about them. If those things were anything other than material copyrighted by others, I might be able to get paid for it. Unfortunately, the "I have to" feeling seems to be attached almost solely to other people's creations. I've never been sure why.
What makes it special for you?
My best guess is that I am not actually an "author" in the post-copyright-law world sense. Copyright law is intended to protect original creations, which I am not really interested in writing. What I am is a storyteller--which used to be a real art form, even a real job, back before people believed that a story's audience should be 100% passive. Books, wonderful as they are, took the interactive, performance element out of storytelling--which was once as much acting as authoring. Print, or the setting of a work in a fixed medium, is the basis of copyright law; it is also the gift that gave us Shakespeare 500 years after his death, and the curse that locked the reader out of the great stories of our culture. The confluence of films, television, and hypertext has given some of that interactivity and reader power back. This allows the storyteller role to exist again, albeit in a furtive and very low-status form.
What sort of fanfic do you write?
Fandom or genre? All the fanfics I've posted are either in the Star Wars or X-Files universes. I've played around with Matrix fic, but never posted any.
I guess my usual genre would be action/adventure, with a generous amount of mush. Add mystery to that list for the X-Files fandom.
How do you get into writing mode
Actually, I pretty much don't. I grew up watching my mother write novels (all unpublished), and so it seems perfectly normal to me to get up in the morning and head straight for the computer, then start banging out material that is never going to sit on any bookstore shelves. I don't have to feel any certain way to do it--although I occasionally trick myself by telling myself that I only have to write three paragraphs, which sounds so harmless, but which is actually just the amount I have to write before I can continue without undue agony. "Three paragraphs" usually ends up being 2-4 pages.
Are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
If you'd asked me that a while ago I'd have said character-driven, but I think that's not exactly true. The thing is, I can live without established characters, settings, and plots. The last thing I posted was barely recognizeable as Star Wars. What I can't live without is the myth itself. There just seem to be universes, myths, storylines, whatever you want to call them, that I become fascinated with and have to explore. This is really why I call myself a storyteller rather than an author. It's the interactive element of passing a common myth back and forth that draws me.
Sadly, something needs to become wildly popular *before* it becomes a common myth, which pretty much relegates me to the shadows of fanfic. Well, unless I want to be like one of the authors who re-writes traditional fairy tales in updated form.
Which I don't.
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So please, let me know why you read and/or write fanfic.
I've always liked reading from a young age. I used to get in trouble for reading in class when I was supposed to be doing school work. I didn't know that you can continue on from a world created in movies or shows until I found my first book-based-on-the-movie. It was an X-files book from the bookfair. I was like in the fifth grade then, it was my fave show at the time so I bought it and it blew me away. I was seeing something totally different from what I seen on the show, personal thoughts and whatnot from the characters view. After that, based-on-the-movie/show/comics became a large part of my personal library. Cuz they're basically all fan fictions written by real writers.
What makes it special for you?
When I write fan fiction, its like learning the character you watch and love, can be so much more personal in a way. Weird, yes, but that's what it fills like to me. Plus its fun to make them do things out of the norm than what they're used to.
How did you start out?
I started writing little bits and pieces, changing little things. I moved from comics to tv shows and then to movies. Eventually I started going all out when I got the 'Net. Then a whole new world opened for me and I've been in it ever since. I saw new views, different plotlines, dreams realized and the what ifs? that have been asked but never answered.
What sort of fanfic do you write?
I like writing the freaks and mythic stories. Anything were characters can have special powers or do things that are beyond the norm. I like writing Star Wars, X-men, Charmed or Buffy/Angel series and X-files type stories.
How do you get into writing mode
When I get bored, I tend to write but I've discovered that when I'm working or doing high activity is when the best stories come out. Even though I can't just drop everything to write it down, I can give myself a basic outline how I would like to write a chapter or storyline.
Are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
I'm a little of both though I tend to move towards the character driven side of writing. It's the characters that drive the story when there isn't action and its interesting and fun to write interactions between two totally different characters. And plus, you can have your characters say something that you wish you could say in real life.
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Padme wasn't in Revenge of the Jedi (Later known as Return of the Jedi), she was in Revenge of the Sith. Get the facts straight.
No need for that. Flame edited.
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DarthNightfire posted:
****************** Padme wasn't in Revenge of the Jedi (Later known as Return of the Jedi), she was in Revenge of the Sith. Get the facts straight.
My humble apologies for the small typo in my article. I'm sure you've never made a mistake before, eh?
Thanks to everyone else who has participated in the survey. Once I get enough information gathered, I will contact you as suggested by the moderator to make certain you wish to be quoted. Thanks again!
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No, not you. Sorry for the mess up. I ment the editor of the article. If there isn't one, then I'm sorry.  No, I'm serious. Sorry. Please forgive me for my stupid rude behavoir, I don't do this normally. I thought that was an official website, so I thought their was an editor. Forgive me, please, please, please. Please. 
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No big deal. People make mistakes. Let's just continue onward as if nothing happened.
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K, I'll spread the word on mugglenet.com.
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1. So please, let me know why you read and/or write fanfic.
Because I enjoy it, and it lets me play in the universe that I like (writing) and read more about characters that interest me (reading).
2. What makes it special for you?
The same as writing in general - it allows a person to craft a plot and guide the lives of characters. Not unlike a deity, but nobody gets hurt.  (Discussions of the act of creating a universe in one's mind thereby creating a parallel univerwe in reality aside...) I get to read entertaining stories by others, and I get to create my own, which are often things I'd like to read but don't see elsewhere.
3. How did you start out? Writing a story loosely based on the tale of Joan of Arc. When I was 10.
4. What sort of fanfic do you write? Almost everything. Drabbles, vignettes, short stories, novel-length works, genfic, het, slash (other archives), canon-compatible stories, AUs, all ratings, almost all genres. There isn't much I won't try at least once. I tend to stay away from crossovers and time-travel fics, but occasionally do songfics (such as The Jedi Man, which is partially a crossover, since it's based on a story in poem form outside of Star Wars), and some of my stories are influenced by other stories but not enough to be a crossover (example: Champions of the Canon on FFN, a Mary Sue parody, borrows a little from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) I love crack pairings, too.
My usual choices are male/female vignettes, genfic vignettes, and long genfic.
5. How do you get into writing mode - are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
Story oriented, but working on being more character drive. I come up with a basic plot, drop the characters in, and let them partly run things with more subplots to keep the story going the right way.
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Why you read and/or write fanfic.
Because there is never enough licensed material around to read. Not the stuff I want to. Let's face it, I dropped out of reading before NJO and even though I have half of it stacken in my shelves I wonder when I'll ever make it around to it.
And because I'm a nitpicker with writing styles. There are some official authors that give me the  and other that I just love. So rather than red a licensed novel by somebody I can't stand i read a fanfic by an author whose style I love. Since I prefer non-AU stories there's no clash with canon. mostly.
Besides the variety is much bigger. And the thing really missing in licensed writing is humour. YOu can laugh you ass off here about SW.
What makes it special for you?
Nothing.
There are many badly written books out there, probably even more than badly written fics on ff.n. I don't care about either, but at least I have the choice to drop a fanfic i don't like a fter a fewe chapters and will not have spent $$$ uselessly.
I just like to read well-written stuff. i don't make much difference, except when it comes to the places I look for it.
How did you start out?
I wrote befor I went to school and had my first 'novel' finished with 6. Then I began writing fanfic, even before I knew there existed a term for that kind of writing. I'm not easily satisfied with my own world-builing, so fanfic is attracive to me because it has all that readymade.
I read my first fanfics in fanzines, and when I saw I was not alone in this I just wrote on. I did much more original writing before I came here, though. I'm afraid those comments you get are pretty addictive. 
What sort of fanfic do you write?
Canon, OC centered stories. Or humour.
I like to think of my fics as add-ons for the already existing canon rather than substitues.
Oh, and not only SW but also 'Vampire Hunter D', if that was the question.
How do you get into writing mode - are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
Writing mode? Well, usually it strikes on my way home in the train. I have to jot down notes that I turn into sensible stuff the next day.
What i like a lot about fanfic is the process of it. You don't get to read a finished novel, but have time to comment on single chapters and chat with the authors. It is much more interactive than the common reader-author relationship, more personal. I can't say I wouldn't just love to have some of my fave authors adopt this style, too. (Though I'd probabyl chat them to death )
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tal0nkarrde posted:
Let me know why you read and/or write fanfic. What makes it special for you? How did you start out? What sort of fanfic do you write? How do you get into writing mode - are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
when i first found TFN, i thought it was the coolest thing ever. i felt like i was a little kid again and stumbled into a whole new world.
the first fanfic i ever read was jainasolo's Lady of the Knights.
i guess i read fanfic to see Star Wars through other people's eyes.
the people you met here, the conversations you have, the friends you make, the laughs you have in the assortment of threads, the exchange of ideas and help.....i think that's what makes it special.
knowing you have the encouragement of complete strangers to keep doing what you do, it's just so cool. we're all little celebrities in here. it's kinda like a self-esteem boost.
i guess you have to be completely consumed by Star Wars to think of a plot that could happen. i mean, not every story out there could be easily translated into Star Warsian, as i affectionately call it.
to 'get started' you have to think in Star Warsian, and somehow either use the cannon characters (from the movies or books) or make up a completely 'original' story. (nothing's really original though, since we all "play in GL's (George Lucas') sandbox".)
personally, i think using the cannon characters helps the thought process, cuz you already have a character, you just need to make him/her do whatever you want them to do in your story. having a character you don't have to think-through about what they would do in certain situations is helpful, to me. having a familiar character may also encourage readers to read your fic; those characters also may kinda help the reader along, to keep up, you know? plotlines may be easier that way; i dunno, i've never tried.
i write Before the Saga.
i suppose i'm story-oriented; i don't write my fics thinking, "So, what am I going to do to Obi-Wan today?" 
like with RJ (my fic), i was inspired, and thought "Wouldn't that be cool?"
only this school-year have i actually started writing it. a few months later, after my editors / friends-who-don't-mind-reading-my-stuff said they wanted more after just the first seven chapters, i thought "I wonder what TFN would think?".....
turns out the few who do like it say the cliff-hangers ('cliffies') are antagonizing; they always want more. and in that way it's kept me going as a writer.
that was cool. my first interview as a writer!  feel free to PM me, or post any more questions for us to answer; just follow Leona's rules and you should be ok.
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let me know why you read and/or write fanfic.
I write fanfiction, because I love Star Wars, want to share my story, and it'ss just plain fun.
What sort of fanfic do you write?
Depends what you mean. Do you mean like based on the actual events in Star Wars? I like doing action, adventure fiction, but then there has to be romance.
How do you get into writing mode
At night I can really write. When I think back when I was a little kid, thats what I base it on. Or when I'm watching movies.
Are you story oriented or character driven, etc.?
I stick to one story, and main characters, if that's what you mean.
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