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Feb14
Fan Fiction Rumble

People have been arguing about fan fiction all week. 

Every once in awhile, I publish interviews and news about fan fiction writers. I love these little handmade, obsessive communities that spring up around popular stories.

You can keep track of the genre in our fan fiction archive. The Publishing Spot was built for fledgling writers--from every Harry Potter fan writer to novelists aspiring to write more like Vikram Chandra

With that in mind, here are my two favorite voices in the fan fiction rumble this week. Cathy Young opened the debate with her essay in Reason magazine, where she concluded:

"The mainstreaming of fan fiction is likely to raise standards further, bringing more educated people into the arena and perhaps encouraging some voluntary gatekeeping, such as contests with input from professional writers or editors. This is already beginning to happen: FanLib, a “social media” company, has been co-sponsoring online writing contests with Showtime and HarperCollins."

Then Ed Champion wrote this funny mock history of the whole debate, you can read an excerpt after the jump. Continue reading...

 


"Of all the moments in the blogosphere, with the exception of the unexpected third-season frottage moment between Sam Tanenhaus and Bat Segundo, few have been as controversial as the relationship between Fanfic Warrior Princess Cathy Young and Lee Goldberg, the Television God of War. It is difficult for the amateur scholar to determine whether any of these relationships are true. It is further difficult for the amateur to limn the demarcation between reality and fiction."

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