Do you love reading as much as I do? Do you like to dive into adventures, romances, drama, and angst or just down right funny? Do you have a favorite book, T.V. show, movie, or comic that you love so much that wished certain outcomes had changed; different couples had hooked up or if you just want a continuation of something ended. Do you like reading things that are free? Then let the internet be your guide into the world of Fan Fiction. You can literally read for the next year nothing but Fan Fiction for a year every night and still not read of it. There is so many sites that you can go to with so many talented writers. I’ve literally gone over a year without buying a single book since I found Fan Fiction, where before I reading probably 5-6 books a month and was not satisfied with my reading material.
Did you know that the very first Fan Fiction posted on the internet was the original Star Trek. The fandom of Fan Fiction was once for just nerds now many readers all over the country read and as well as write it themselves. Not only is it a good place to read but also a good way to get noticed. I know of three authors I enjoyed reading publish their own books because they were ‘found’ by their Fan Fiction!
The best sites to go to that are general sites are fanfiction.net, livejournal.com, and tumblr.com. Those three are the places to find general writings of any show, any book, any movie, and on the last two many original stories. There are actually several different sites you can go to that have original stories as well. I’ve however never checked them out due to Fan Fiction being so loved. Glee of course all of you know takes a lot of my fan fiction time. On the show Brittana is so close to being together, however I read the summer after the first season a 100k word story of them being together and moving to New York.
A few things you have to learn before joining Fan Fiction however if you are interested. First you need to go here to figure out all the basic terms are for Fan Fiction. A few terms:
Fandom: Of course what group of what your reading.
Canon: This is the actual storyline that your reading is based on.
AU: aka Alternative Universe, (to mean this is just an original story just using the fandom’s names and popular places) Ex. Criminal Minds: They are no longer criminalist but cowboys.
AH: aka All human (mostly sci fi or fantasy) Ex. Twilight: All human. That is actually a very popular writing style to make all of them human; they do an excellent job of it.
OC: Original Character
OOC: Out of Character
Then we go into couples, a lot of stories are couple based to be honest, just reality of life.
Slash: usually two females or two male storylines that usually don’t follow canon.
FF: Usually mean a lesbian storyline. Harry Potter: Hermione/Fleur
MM: A Gay Storyline between two men. Star Trek Captain Kurk/Spock (Was actually the very first slash storyline)
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