Fan Fiction

Fan Fiction

Fan fiction is usually young people writing stories about their favourite TV shows and computer games. Now I have mentioned in the past that I am not keen on novels based on TV and games, but fan fiction is a whole different story. When professional writers try to change their style to suit a storyline already written, it can come across as clumsy. But when an inexperienced writer, or young writer, tries their hand a creating stories about their favourite things, the most amazing tales can come out. Ok, so they’re not the polished gems you’d pick up in a book store; the grammar is awful and spelling is atrocious, but look beyond that and you’ll find wonderful imaginations spurned into working by the shows they watch and games they play.

These authors of tomorrow are starting out in the wonderful world of writing, and nothing can stop them. They will inherit the empire we leave behind and all we can do is help them. If the younger generation only wants to write about one particular show, then encourage it. As long as the story they write is original, they will use their imaginations and from that will spring whole worlds that we of the “slightly more experienced” generation could never have thought of.

I called us “Slightly more experienced” as I don’t believe there could ever possibly be a fully experienced writer, and there definitely is no such thing as an expert writer. But as we continue to concentrate on our craft, the young ones will be learning to appreciate it, through their own interests, and I can’t help but look forward to what this new batch of writers will produce and how much they could teach us. This is an exciting world where anything can happen, with only pen and paper.

Everywhere, I see people belittle the works of fan-fiction as not real fiction, but that is nonsense as any writer worth his/her salt would tell you. Anything written from the imagination is a work of fiction, even if facts are twisted to tell a story, its fiction. Even if the world ended because a purple unicorn rode a rainbow to the milky-way and farted the earth into darkness, that’s still fiction; and it would take a massive imagination to come up with it. Don’t mock fan-fiction, it inspires the novelists of tomorrow.

Tell me what you think. Read, follow, comment and enjoy. M x