Your hot take on fan fiction isn’t so hot

It’s been almost a year since I last blogged. A lot has happened, but these days, I don’t feel much like personal or recreational writing—not even on a blog. That said, sometimes A Thing makes me so infuriated that I can’t bottle it in and need to get it out somehow.

This was posted in one of my writing groups, and I think it’s probably the last straw for my interest in belonging there.

The text reads:


Side Note To Fan Fic Authors


Here’s the thing.


I read a lot of scripts. A lot. From professio...


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Published on January 25, 2022 14:00
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message 1: by K.S. (new)

K.S. Trenten An interesting article which makes a lot of good points. I wish I could read the original article. The print is too small, so I'm not sure what she's saying. It's true, fan fiction runs the gamut just like everything else. Plus we all have our favorites. It's in many ways a labor of love. I marvel at the amount of pressure script writers crank out their work within a short amount of time. I've noticed the scripts I really enjoyed (I'm thinking of both Hannibal and the Battlestar Galactica remake) often were rewritten at the very last minute.


message 2: by Mere (new)

Mere Rain I do wonder why she's comparing fan fic to scripts rather than to novels.


message 3: by K.S. (new)

K.S. Trenten Mere wrote: "I do wonder why she's comparing fan fic to scripts rather than to novels."

I think the original article was doing a comparison of fan fiction to scripts. It may have something to do with the subject matter as well? Possibly it involved a particular fandom which was a movie or a TV show?


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