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I know I've gone MIA again. I guess this is going to be a regular feature. I mean I truly try to post regularly and I begin writing something that I'd like to share. Regardless of whether I'm a few lines in or halfway through, someone or something will distract me. I think I'll come back to in a bit but I find that by the time I return to it a few months have passed by.
Tragic isn't it. However, it doesn't mean that I'm not writing. I've been extremely busy with work. My multitasking skills are doing well. Freelance writing on one side, tarot reading on the other and finishing assignments for my MA while reading stacks of books.
In the midst of all the chaos that is my life, I recently made an interesting discovery, fan fiction writing. I had never looked into it because I thought they were just story theories. Pleasantly surprised to see that they are actual stories with a variety of premises, but characters and locations from popular works.
It all began when I was browsing through my Pinterest account. I came across a post on the best Harry Potter fan fiction. I like many others grew up with Harry Potter as part of my pop culture. I'm absolutely in love with Hogwarts and every aspect of the magical world Rowling has presented us. However, there are all those what-if's and maybe's that have us wondering if things could have been different. Fan fiction allows each of these possibilities to exist.
The entire system is an informal setup of a publication house. Fan fiction is a website that has a collection of fan fiction writing. Apart from Harry Potter based stories, there are stories based on movies, anime, plays, cartoons etc. There's two basic variations single category and crossover. The single category sticks with characters and locations from a single popular work and adds original elements in terms of plot and structure as well as locations and characters as and when necessary.
While not all works are equally good and some are more popular than others, it's interesting to see how it works. Fan fiction hosts all these stories. The members are the writers, editors, reviewers and readers of the material created by them. What really impressed me is the concept of some stories, in some others it was their character development and plot execution.
The easiest way to decide which work to read is to read the synopsis and look at the reviews. If you still can't decide just pick one and start reading if you don't like it pick another, it's free. You read right these are free to read. The length of the stories varies from a few thousand to a hundred thousand words depending on the detail involved. So I've read quite a few in last few months. I'm curious if I should attempt to write one too.
Maybe I will. Maybe I should just write when I can. No expectations. I'll see you when I see you. Hopefully sooner rather than later, until then happy reading.
I know I've gone MIA again. I guess this is going to be a regular feature. I mean I truly try to post regularly and I begin writing something that I'd like to share. Regardless of whether I'm a few lines in or halfway through, someone or something will distract me. I think I'll come back to in a bit but I find that by the time I return to it a few months have passed by.
Tragic isn't it. However, it doesn't mean that I'm not writing. I've been extremely busy with work. My multitasking skills are doing well. Freelance writing on one side, tarot reading on the other and finishing assignments for my MA while reading stacks of books.
In the midst of all the chaos that is my life, I recently made an interesting discovery, fan fiction writing. I had never looked into it because I thought they were just story theories. Pleasantly surprised to see that they are actual stories with a variety of premises, but characters and locations from popular works.
It all began when I was browsing through my Pinterest account. I came across a post on the best Harry Potter fan fiction. I like many others grew up with Harry Potter as part of my pop culture. I'm absolutely in love with Hogwarts and every aspect of the magical world Rowling has presented us. However, there are all those what-if's and maybe's that have us wondering if things could have been different. Fan fiction allows each of these possibilities to exist.
The entire system is an informal setup of a publication house. Fan fiction is a website that has a collection of fan fiction writing. Apart from Harry Potter based stories, there are stories based on movies, anime, plays, cartoons etc. There's two basic variations single category and crossover. The single category sticks with characters and locations from a single popular work and adds original elements in terms of plot and structure as well as locations and characters as and when necessary.
While not all works are equally good and some are more popular than others, it's interesting to see how it works. Fan fiction hosts all these stories. The members are the writers, editors, reviewers and readers of the material created by them. What really impressed me is the concept of some stories, in some others it was their character development and plot execution.
The easiest way to decide which work to read is to read the synopsis and look at the reviews. If you still can't decide just pick one and start reading if you don't like it pick another, it's free. You read right these are free to read. The length of the stories varies from a few thousand to a hundred thousand words depending on the detail involved. So I've read quite a few in last few months. I'm curious if I should attempt to write one too.
Maybe I will. Maybe I should just write when I can. No expectations. I'll see you when I see you. Hopefully sooner rather than later, until then happy reading.
