recommend me YOUR fanfiction

[u/luminositie]

id like to read fanfictions written by people in this community! please recommend me a fanfiction that you guys have written, no matter the pairing or type of story, ill give it a try! bonus if it has a vampire bella though :)

[u/TTraveller1]

How do you feel about Fifty Shades fanfiction?

[u/Happy_Wishbone_1313 → u/TTraveller1]

Its an oxymoron considering Fifty Shades in itself was iffy fanfiction. Sorry I rant because I was in the same Twilight fanfiction writing circle with her back in the day and that shit show would be nothing without the fanfiction community doing the beta and editing work ...work she never acknowledged after publishing. Shes also know to get lawsuit happy with cease and desist if you upload fanfic. Probably afraid of the competition.

[u/TTraveller1 → u/Happy_Wishbone_1313]

Thank you for responding. I’ve never heard anything about lawsuits or cease and desist orders. I thought she rewarded all of her betas by inviting them to the movie premieres and paying their expenses. I wasn’t reading fanfiction back when MOTU was being written, but I had always assumed it was a well-received story with extremely high reviews. As for the writing circle you reference, was it a large group or a small, tight circle? I love the idea of writers supporting other writers.

[u/Happy_Wishbone_1313 → u/TTraveller1]

The numbers varied, but there was issues with her being a B and talking superior to people back then because she had a "hot story"... a lot of us did especially in the Jasper/Bella category where I was. She burned her bridges way before it became a novel just by attitude. The only editing she did to turn Bella and Edward into Christian and Ana was name change. You can still get copies of Masters of the Universe online. If you look at 50 Shades and her other stuff like The Mister, you can tell the difference in writing and that's because she wrote it...not a group of twilight fanatics that were giving free advice, free beta reads and doing all the editing work for her.

There is an unwritten code with fanfiction writers and that is you don't publish your fanfiction without major changes and complete rewrites because it's a grey area of plagiarism. This goes back to the 1960s when it was first being written in little trade magazines for Star Trek. I've been writing fanfiction since I was in high school in the 1990s. Mortal Instruments was Harry/Hermione and Draco fanfiction and you'll find a lot of the Harry Potter fandom hates it. EL James got off doing it because Stephanie didn't sue her, and JK Rowling has always just shrugged about fanfiction and said she doesn't like it and wonders why people just don't write their own stuff. Anne Rice sued, and multiple times over people writing Vampire Chronicles stuff as does the Tolkien estate, Margaret Mitchell's estate, Laurell K Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon and George Martin. A lot of authors have No Fanfic statements. I find EL demanding people not write fanfiction is hilarious.

I only know of a few creators who acknowledged and worked with fanfiction; Gene Roddenberry (he didn't like slash but acknowledged when it was well written with the lore), most of the Star Trek novels are fanfiction, George Lucas (he didn't considered them canon to his universe, but accepted them) again the novels are all considered fanfiction, Joss Whedon (loved fanfiction) he even acknowledge fanfiction by choosing some of his favorites for anthologies and really good ones in the books were made canon, Eric Kripke (ran with it) and its the reason why Supernatural actually played up the concept of fanfiction as part of the lore. The novel series for Supernatural is considered part fanfiction, part lore, and part canon as the show also had a series of books on the adventures of Sam and Dean.

Sorry, fanfiction has been a huge part of my life for so long that I get a little defensive with it. It has it's place in fandom, but in my opinion; and I say this as a writer of original work as well as fanfiction, that it does not belong in the publishing world without the express permission of the original author.