I have been wanting to write this discussion for quite some time now, but when every time I sit down I don't know what to say. So I decided that it is time to just write it. Fanfiction is a big discussion around the book word. Some people love it, some people hate it. Is it right to do? Is it wrong? Why do people write it? These questions are asked all the time.
I have been reading Fanfiction since I was twelve years old. I loved it then and I love it now. The main reason I read fanfiction is, because I love a book so much that I don't want to leave it. The world of the book captures me and all I want to do is read more and more.
Firstly, what is fanfiction?
Fanfiction is where someones uses characters, the world or other attributes of
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It's hard to have a solid answer for this, for me, if the person who has written the story isn't gaining money from it and has acknowledged that they have not created the world, characters etc - then I think I am okay.
However, if the person is receiving money or has published the book then now, they shouldn't do that and I won't read it.
There are some authors that don't like when their books have inspired fanfictions and that is totally okay - they can feel that way, they are allowed to feel that way.
I feel that fanfictions is an amazing exercise for people that want to be authors. They are able to write with characters that have already been established and they can work with that, they are able to create dialogue, write in a world that has already been built. It's a way of just working on the authors writing rather than world building.
Bad side
One of the thing's that I dislike about reading fanfiction is the response from others, it's not a thing that I think about all the time, but when people ask if you read it - I don't like to say yes - because they look down on me. It's mostly since I have been at university that I've noticed this and maybe it's because they are older and most fanfiction is to do with young adult novels, but I don't really