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Article in TIME about Fan Fiction
Rose:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on July 10, 2011, 09:07:53 PM ---Really interesting article! I especially liked this quote:
"It's also an intensely social, communal activity. Like punk rock, fan fiction is inherently inclusive, and people spend as much time hanging out talking to one another about it as they do reading and writing it."
--- End quote ---
That article really summed up what fanfic and the community that comes from it. :) I also love that JK Rowling supports it.
RokofAges75:
There was a brief segment on Harry Potter fanfic on the CBS Evening News last night. Fanfic's going mainstream; I love it! LOL
I had never heard of fanfic before discovering my first BSB story, so it's nice that the media is starting to get the word out a little bit and explaining it so it doesn't sound quite so weird LOL.
Like the article said, it does seem like the kind of nerdy hobby you'd expect a guy in his late thirties who lives in his mom's basement to be doing; I had to laugh at this quote:
"Fan-fiction writers aren't guys who live in their parents' basements. They aren't even all guys. If anything, anecdotal evidence suggests that most fan fiction is written by women."
It's great to show that a lot (maybe not all) of fanfic writers are normal adults with actual lives - families, friends, careers, other interests and hobbies. I still won't go shouting to the world that I write Backstreet Boys fanfic, but it does help explain it for the people in my life who DO know - and think it's weird LOL.
mare:
I thought I heard the word fanfic when I was switching channels last night. LOL I usually watch NBC nightly news but changed to CBS at the very ending. Must have just missed it!
RokofAges75:
Yeah, it was at the very end, the last segment. It was pretty short, nothing super interesting; it just mentioned how, even though Harry Potter's ending, fans will keep it alive through fanfic, and it explained what fanfic was and had interviews with a HP fanfic writer and the creator of Mugglenet.com.
Rose:
I kinda wish RPG fanfic would get mentioned lmao, cause it seems to be the section fanfiction writers find weird haha. But I love that it's getting more mainstream. We DO have lives. It also sounds weird and I remember trying to explain it to my parents when my mom saw me writing it on my computer lmao. Awkward conversation as a teen. It's just nice seeing it get defined better.
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