Fanfiction sits at the margins of mainstream creative endeavour, and interrogates established views of what it means to be a writer; the meaning of intellectual property, creativity, originality, ‘ownership;’ and traditional boundaries surrounding these concepts, as well as the whole
[QUOTE] From Rebecca Tushnet, Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions
And because fanworks in their inception are based on the original, the ability to have more and more without erasing the original structures the entire enterprise. One popular fan story form is known as “Five Things That Never Happened.” A
[META] Existing settings, existing characters
We are all familiar with the elements of fiction: plot, character, theme, setting, point of view. When a writer decides to set a story in San Francisco in 1980, or in Bonn in 1950, or in her home town the