![]() The divide between a fanfiction writer and an original fiction writer can look very arbitrary when looking at authors such as Michael Chabon, who once described his own novel Moonglow as “a Gravity’s Rainbow fanfic”. Marriage material.? Tom Felton as Draco, and Daniel Radcliffe in 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. “It’s them dealing with attachment parenting and step-parents and all these middle-aged issues.” “It’s Harry and Draco as a couple who have been married for many years, and they’re raising Harry’s kids,” she said. ![]() Rainbow Rowell, the bestselling author of Eleanor and Park and other novels, once told the Bookseller that between two novels, she wrote a 30,000-word Harry Potter fanfiction. She is a co-founder of the Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the most popular hosting websites, and a prolific writer in the universes of Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Merlin and many more.Īnd she’s not the only professional at work. In between writing her novels – or indeed during, as she admits that fanfiction is one of her favourite procrastination techniques – Novik is an active member of the fanfiction community. “I don’t actually draw any line between my fanfiction work and my professional work – except that I only write the fanfiction stuff for love.” She is the bestselling author of the Temeraire books, a fantasy series that adds dragons to the Napoleonic Wars, and Spinning Silver, which riffs on Rumpelstiltskin. “Here’s the thing,” Naomi Novik explains over the phone from New York. ‘Fanfiction is a great incubator for writers’ … Naomi Novik. The general image of fanfiction has brightened somewhat: less creepy, more sweetly nerdy. These days, it’s fairly common knowledge that some people just really like writing about Captain America and Bucky Barnes falling in love, or Doctor Who fighting demons with Buffy. Big-name authors such as EL James, author of the Fifty Shades books, and Cassandra Clare, who has always been open about writing Harry Potter fanfiction before her bestselling Mortal Instruments series, have helped bring it into the mainstream. In the last few years, fanfiction has enjoyed something of a rebrand. ![]() Fanfiction has always been out there, if you knew where to look. Thirty years later, the internet arrived, which made sharing stories set in other people’s worlds – be they Harry Potter, Spider-Man, or anything and everything in between – easier. What most of us would recognise as fanfiction began in the 1960s, when Star Trek fans started creating zines about Spock and Captain Kirk’s adventures. Seen with this generous eye, the art of writing stories using other people’s creations hails from long before our awareness of Twilight-fanfic-turned-BDSM romance Fifty Shades of Grey: perhaps Virgil, when he picked up where Homer left off with the story of Aeneas, or Shakespeare’s retelling of Arthur Brookes’s 1562 The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet. D evotees of fanfiction will sometimes tell you that it’s one of the oldest writing forms in the world.
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