Fan Fiction

Robert Genaro

Fanfiction  

       According to one source the Urban Dictionary “Fanfiction is when someone takes either the story or characters (or both) of a certain piece of work, whether it be a novel, tv show, movie, etc, and create their own story based on it.” Fan Fiction in its simplest form, is fan made/created material (writing) based on others works. These definition is have very similar overlaping concepts,in Reading in A Participatory culture Remixing Moby-Dick in the English classroom “fan fiction refers to original stories and novels set in the fictional universe of favorite /television series( Star trek) films (50 Shades of Gray) comics/animes (Samurai Champloo) and even be seen as far back as some early British literature (Paradise Lost) etc.

       It allows the reader to have a voice within a desired text, some unregulated freedom to decided whether the character and/or plot can evolve/devolve or be expanded more in depth. These inventions come from other ideas consider the I phone and graphic’s engine! Basically it creates opportunity for individual genius, a myth of sorts allows for a stigma of the original work. In a nut shell its learning through remixing. The theory is that it allows for a newish creation of the original, where the reader can critique, experience and entertain. Serves as a outlet to relieve frustrations and empowers the original (idolizing). Although fan fiction has no definable origin because it goes as far back a oral traditions, it gained much popularity with women “who wrote the majority of fan stories” before the internet boom. Fan fiction has many genres each having it own form of media lens to see what can’t be seem from just one point of view, encouraging diversity and innovation in a personal atmosphere.