I’ve only recently stumbled onto FanFiction.Net. (Don’t ask.) I’ve never written fan fiction, but I’ve discovered that I’m not above reading it: If you’ve got an idea for how Booth and Brennan should finally get together on Bones and it’s rated M, count me in.
While some of the hundreds of series represented on the site make perfect sense to me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer had 33,396 stories at last count), others made me do a double-take: 1,122 for Scarecrow and Mrs. King; 158 for The Nanny; 153 for Caroline in the City; 122 for Remington Steele (left); 12 for ALF (right); 3 for Punky Brewster; and 1 for My Two Dads. Really?
So, here’s what I want to know: Have you ever written fan fiction? Answer in the convenient EW.com poll below. If so, for which show(s)? (Reveal all in the comments section.) If you don’t write it, but you read it, tell us why.
I have written one piece of fan fiction, and one only (and hopefully never again). It was for The X-Files, which I have a feeling is likely to have one of the largest fanfic bases. I mean we X-Philes were devouring fanfic long before anyone else got their hands on it.
Any way, it was a short story where Mulder and Scully confessed their love to each other or something. Probably was better than the second movie. Would love to find it again and laugh at myself.
God, I don’t even admit this to my friends and family–but yes, I write fan fiction. (Hooray internet anonymity!)
In my defense, I don’t write because I want to marry someone else’s characters. I’m a novelist who has written three books, and I am a firm believer in practice makes perfect–I need to write every single day or I start sliding backwards, skillwise. So when I’m between projects, or suffering from bad writer’s block–yep. Fan fiction. It’s fun and low-maintenence, just messing around in other people’s worlds for awhile. And yes, I do post it, and that’s just all about feedback. Since I write good-quality fan fiction, I get praise for it, which is reeeeally really nice for an author who occasionally has to deal with rejection in the real world. It’s a kind of encouragement that is sometimes necessary to let me know that maybe I am good enough to eventually make it in an official capacity. With my own characters. With my own world.
I didn’t think I would ever actually admit to this but I totally read fan fiction on fanfiction.net. Theres some good anime fan fiction. And now I just admited I read anime fan fiction. Oh well.
I have never written fan fiction, but discovered fan fiction.net a few years ago, during my second year of college. It was pretty good (albeit ridiculous)way to avoid doing homework. I have to admit, I still check out that site a couple times a month. I’ll admit that I’ve read a lot of Buffy fanfic, as well fanfic based on various sci-fi shows (including the X Files). Man, it actually feels good to confess that!
I wrote fan fiction when I was an angsty teenage girl obsessed with the X-files.
I grew out of it, and the last time I wandered into a Buffy fan-fiction it was a Buffy/Giles sex one, and it made me feel physically ill. I haven’t ventured back.
Yes, written it, read it, way before the Net and do still. And please don’t judge by FF.Net, some of the worst stuff is over there (not that there’s not good but it is not all fic on the Net by a long shot!). Go find the actual fic archives for Bones, I’m sure there is one.
The first fanfic I stumbled upon was Buffy fic. And then Heroes got me started on actually writing the stuff. It’s fun to play with established characters in the way you think things should go, should’ve gone, or would NEVER go. *thinks of the multitude of slash fic…which is a genre she has written in*
Written and read it…. Buffy, Trek, X-Men, Breakfast Club (there are like 4 stories in that fandom) Alias, Highlander, Harry Potter (all Snape all the time), Supernatural, CSI, Battlestar Galactica, Sentinel… and yes the list goes on…
I used to read FF.net waaay back in the day – this is when they still posted fics using real people and NSync and Backstreet Boy fics reigned supreme. Man, what I wouldn’t give to go through those archives and find all of my favorites that had Lance and Justin making sweet, sweet love.
I adore fanfiction. It’s a great way to see the different ways a storyline could have gone, for characters to take a different path then the one they took, or to read the different futures for characters after the show/movie/book ended.
I read fic mostly for Twilight and The West Wing but also for Gilmore Girls, Roswell, Daria, Once and Again and Pride & Prejudice.
I have written fanfic for The Magnificent Seven (short-lived t.v. show), The X-Men, Supernatural, and Stargate Atlantis. I’ve read fanfic in those fandoms as well as The Sentinel, Buffy, The X-Files, Harry Potter; and a few fics here and there for any number of t.v. shows. Fan fiction is a fun way to engage the source and share enthusiasm for it, as well as a fun way to explore ideas and characterization that the source does not.
Yes, I have both read and written fan fiction. In particular writting stories about my favorite couple, Shawn and Belle on Days of Our Lives. I have read countless stories on them. And I have tried writing stories about Max and Liz from Roswell; haven’t completed the story yet but I am working on it. But I have read countless Roswell fan fiction. Sometimes they are better than the actual show. I have read stories for West Wing, and others. Some of the writers of fan fiction are amazing writers.
My friend has been writing Les Mis fanfic for 5 or 6 years, at least. No, not fanfic based on the musical adaptation, but fanfic based on the actual book. She also writes fanfic based on The Scarlet Pimpernel. I’m not that cerebral when it comes to fan fic- I’ve only written Buffy and BSG fanfic.
Yes, I read it. And yes, I have written it. And I plan on writing another fanfic next month. It can be very cathartic, especially when a favorite show goes away and you want to know what happened with the characters.
I write it and read it. I’ve written fanfic for Cold Case, The Invisible Man, Firefly, The Magnificent Seven, CSI, wrestling. My current fannish addiction is reading and writing Primeval fanfic (the series, not the stupid alligator movie).