fan fiction – Patrice Sarath

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Writing lessons — to fan fic or not?

Note: It’s Throwback Thursday! For this week’s episode, to fan fic or not to fan fic? In these times of AO3, it seems like a silly question, but in 2009, it was a thing. And yes, back then? It was often a gendered distaste. Despite fan fiction creating a line Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 9 months9 months ago

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A Christmas writing lesson — the Mary Sue

Gather round, children, for the legend of Mary Sue. Once there was a fan-fic author, whose name has been lost in the mists of time. Some say she, for it’s always a she, wrote Star Trek fan-fic. Others say no, that she wrote Lord of the Rings fan-fic. Regardless of Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 12 years ago