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When does fan fiction stop being fan fiction? When you put Harry Potter on a dinosaur and start making money.

The Young Family Site just printed excerpts from pirated, invented Harry Potter books published in Mandarin (the picture comes straight from one copy). A few industrious writers wanted to make a few bucks selling fake installments of the Harry Potter adventures in China.

The results mish-mash Harry Potter and hobbits, a confusing mix that probably merits a PhD thesis for some English major. The link comes via Edward Champion, who found it on The Dizzies, a fun site I always forget to mention.

I'm mentioning it today, as Ed Park just published a whole slew of poetry month resources. No matter what kind of writer you are, poetry will show you how to be a better writer--it's pure, undiluted writing.

Dig it: 

"Check out FSG's National Poetry Month site, and of course the stuff brewing over at the PoFo (where I blog when I get a chance—some of it overlaps with Dizzies stuff, but not much)..and Jordan Davis's Equanimity...and Joshua Clover...and Cathy Park Hong..."