My Very Small Handful of Fanfic
I've heard AO3 (Archive of Our Own) is down, though it could be back up again by the time I post this. I don't usually pay attention to what's going on over there, or with fanfic in general. I don't say that in an insultingly dismissive way. It's just not my passion. Since I'm Old On the Internet (working my way toward just being old), I remember when AO3 didn't exist yet and there was way to much arguing about whether or not fanfic is "real writing". Of course it is! It may not be my passion, but there's never been any question for me that it's valid. My dream in middle and high school was that I would be hired to write a Star Trek novel someday. If you're a fan who gets a contract to do a novelization of something, I call that professional fanfic. You know the thing that goes around about how our ancestors did do oral history and storytelling for so long just for people to now say audiobooks don't count as books? There's a ...