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Jun. 4th, 2004 09:34 amNeil Gaiman on fanfic, because it makes my little heart happy.
As a fledgling writer, I really wouldn't spend too much time worrying that people will write fan fiction with your characters in. If they ever do, take it as a sign that you probably did something right and made some characters that people liked and believed in and wanted to write about. Or wanted to imagine in the nude. Or something.
Which reminds me that an author friend once asked me jokingly why no one ever wrote fanfic based on their stories. And that got me thinking about why some stuff is ficcable to me and some isn't.
( Here's what I came up with )
I'm all curious now. What is it about a source text that makes you guys want to write fanfic for it?
As a fledgling writer, I really wouldn't spend too much time worrying that people will write fan fiction with your characters in. If they ever do, take it as a sign that you probably did something right and made some characters that people liked and believed in and wanted to write about. Or wanted to imagine in the nude. Or something.
Which reminds me that an author friend once asked me jokingly why no one ever wrote fanfic based on their stories. And that got me thinking about why some stuff is ficcable to me and some isn't.
( Here's what I came up with )
I'm all curious now. What is it about a source text that makes you guys want to write fanfic for it?
