Here’s the thing.
I read a lot of scripts. A lot. From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies. Features and pilots. Specs and treatments.
And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff. It’s more inspired. It’s more compelling. It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt. It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful. It’s smart and thoughtful and good. It’s novel-quality. Better than, sometimes.
Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job. This is what they do on the side. In their spare time. For free.
So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good. You’re good writers and great storytellers. I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do. And because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies. You’re better than that. So be better than that. If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it. You’ve already started.
And you’re more talented than you might think.
To all of my writer friends. This is so fucking true. ❤
Tag: writers
I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
H. Raven Rose (via writingquotes)
I want to thank all fic writers, whether your fic has 100 hits or 100′000. Thank you for doing this for free, thank you for putting time and effort into doing something purely for your reader’s enjoyment. Thank you for writing in what is sometimes your second or third language. Thank you
Reblog/Like if you think Fanfiction writers deserve just as much credit as Fandom Artists.
i argued with a friend who said that fanfiction is nothing compared the artworks that come out of the fandoms but hey. Writing fanfiction isn’t always easy, we deserve just as much recognition.
absolutely. writing is an art.
Requested by Anonymous.
Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine
This is probably the best, non-judgmental description of fan fiction I’ve ever heard of in main stream media.
(via concerninghumans)
Shadow In The Light 