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But, I’m not just talking about the imitators. People thought this was really DH they mistook the fake as the real thing because its style and its use of words closely mirrored Rowling’s. The story contained a scene with Hermione and Ron’s wedding and a conversation between Harry and Hermione beforehand (I wish I could find it). I remember that there was an apparent “leak” of “Deathly Hallows” before its publication date. Please credit me.)įanfiction has shown me that many fantastic writers exist and go unrecognized. Writers might be a lot of things, but cowards they are not (I feel like someone should make an epic banner out of this. I should be proud of what I read and write. that comes with writing, I should never doubt the seriousness of my work. Because of the arduous thinking, planning, composing, editing, etc. All of this was negative, of course, because I became dependent on other people’s opinions and would feel like I failed whenever I didn’t meet their expectations.īut I’ve learned that as a writer and as a reader, you should never be ashamed. Waiting for a review became another obsession for me. (When I say fans, that means one user who religiously followed my stories). Sometimes I fired back at my critics by writing a long “author’s note.” Sometimes my fans were quick to defend me.

However, despite the anonymous nature of fanfiction writing, each time I got a “flame,” or a negative critique, I took it as a blow to my self-esteem. I didn’t have to face my critics (but the downside was that I couldn’t face my fans). On the internet, I could be anything I wanted. I liked the anonymity that fanfiction afforded me. I never wanted anyone to know how deeply entrenched I was in an imaginary world. I never wanted my siblings to know about it. I didn’t like watching soap operas (still don’t) but I loved reading a drama-packed HP story. I never talked about my hobby because the stories I tended to read were reflective of myself, and back then, I felt a large amount of angst. And I never wanted people to know about it. I was once obsessed with reading HP fanfics.

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According to, the most popular category of fanfiction is the “Harry Potter” series because it has 650,689 fanfics – and believe me, the number is only growing. Simply put, fanfiction refers to stories written by fans. To those unfamiliar with fanfiction, scholar Bronwen Thomas best describes it as “stories produced by fans based on plot lines and characters from either a single source text or else a “canon” of works these fan-created narratives often take the pre-existing storyworld in a new, sometimes bizarre, direction.” Note the words “fan,” “canon,” and most important, “bizarre.” Once upon a time, I avidly read fanfiction.

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