Everyone who reads both books and fanfiction knows there’s a clear difference in reading speed. While a 500 page book might take a week to get through, reading at “fanfiction speed” can allow a reader ...

The Outsiders. Photo: Jed Egan/Photo: Nancy Moran/Sygma/Corbis, Warner Bros. We tend to think of the fanfiction writer as an obsessed amateur, pounding away at the keyboard for sheer love of the ...

Buckle up babes, we’re all in tonight. In a ridiculous moment of hubris a few weeks ago, I posted on Twitter that I was debating between writing fanfic and doing work while on a plane home from a work ...

Fanfiction authors often come under attack for writing plots and characters taken from someone else’s world when they could be writing their own stories. Many people believe that fanfiction writers ...

Even in the earliest memories of my childhood, I remember writing. I remember sitting in front of the computer in our guest bedroom, typing away for hours on end to finish the story I was working on.

If you were to ask my parents about my high school friends, they would probably reply with a blank stare. After a moment, they might sputter out a couple of names, unsure, with invisible question ...

Until recently, depression and anxiety extinguished any motivation in me to write creatively. Other than some poems written sporadically, every time I made an attempt to write I was filled with dread ...

What if Harry Potter had ended up with Hermione — or Draco Malfoy, for that matter? In the world of fanfiction, where amateur writers spin new tales involving famous characters and other pop culture ...