How to pronounce “fan fiction” in English

Fan fiction does not necessarily have to be great or even good to help produce a community.

Fan fiction also has basically-- in the fan fiction community, the function of editing is taken over by beta readers.

fan works community, saw-- there was a company specifically then, called FanLib, that basically was trying to create a fan fiction archive that they

The fan fiction. The fan fiction is going to be incredible.

The fan fiction writers love comments and feedback since that's the only-- that's sort of the immediate direct reward that they get for it.

in fan fiction, that you almost take it for granted as a fan fiction writer.

Some of the fan fiction stuff, some of the fan films, I think are great, passionate.

If I write fan fiction on Harry Potter, that's a derivative work.

There's fan fiction too.

And there's a fan fiction about them.

I was writing fan fiction.

And they were inviting fan fiction writers to come and post on their site.

So in fan fiction, the reason you would write a fanfic story is because you want that more.

Especially in fan fiction, a lot of fan fiction readers-- there's a lot of trigger warnings in fan fiction

And my fan fiction beta readers are a lot tougher than my editor.

But they read fan fiction.

And a lot of fan fiction writers were sort of underground, as a result. Or would say-- there's a default kneejerk thing of people saying fan fiction's

If you could update it to fan fiction of who you would like to have a daughter.

So they start writing their own fan fiction.

And having written some bad fan fiction in my life, I'm not ready to go back to it.

talking about the really rich fan fiction world that has claimed "Harry Potter."

I kind of went into fan fiction mode.

And I started writing Next Generation fan fiction because there were other people doing that.

For anybody who doesn't know what fan fiction is, it's basically you take typically a TV series or a movie or a book and you write stories

How we needed a home for fan fiction and fanworks that was like fan fiction itself, done in a non-commercial way, that basically

Possibly because I talk about fan fiction a lot, so they're scared to say it to me now.

So what I think of as the fan fiction, or possibly, more broadly, I should call it the optimistic literary

There's a lot of-- fan fiction is very heavily female-dominated.

If you're beta reading a fan fiction story, you can say, well, no, Captain Kirk would not do that.

about copyright law and how it affects fan fiction.

get to know whether your fan fiction story is fair use, unless it actually-- unless you actually get sued and go to court.

group, whether it's fan fiction, whether you're trying to start a vlog yourself.

And we'll actually invite some of those fan fiction writers to come and do that.

And what you're seeing there is the commercialization of fan fiction.

Also "Harry Potter" and "Voldemort" being in love fan fiction is just, like, amazing.

Nothing happens but it's just about-- Erotic fan fiction is what he's talking about.

But people would often talk about the problems with fan fiction.

But one of the interesting things is that bad fan fiction actually can serve some of the function of some of those goals.

And that's really sort of the antithesis of the fan fiction kind of approach where you really want-- you're like,

Like rape fiction is actually a huge genre in fan fiction where people frequently are working through issues

Obviously, the kind of fan fiction that I'm talking about is non-commercial.

I think the first thing I ever wrote was a Henry Higgins fan fiction, the Beverly Cleary books, children's books.

such an interesting world, what people do with fan fiction.

I also-- with the title of the book-- hoped that with all of the fan fiction around vampire books, maybe someone would accidentally buy my book thinking that it

But that's actually tends to be quite far away from what fan fiction is.

And that kind of impulse, through fan fiction, also lends itself to more of that, but with dragons.

And so a lot of times, fan fiction literally just-- enormous swaths of it just vanish into thin air.

Well, a lot of people hosted to their fan fiction on GeoCities.

So specifically, I talked about how fan fiction, you can't sell it.