"I became a fan fic addict when I was 14...."

[morgandawn]

"I became an addict when I was 14. But it wasn’t drugs, or booze. I didn’t drop out of school or run away from home; in fact I stayed in. When you are addicted to fan fiction, you don’t need to leave the house to escape.....Fan fiction gave me hours of free entertainment, repetitive strain injury and an introduction to new worlds (it’s where I first read about Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson). My favourite stories reworked the assumptions of the original texts."  Katherine Arcement, Diary Fanfic.

Comments

[annezo]

I love this link. I love research that tracks the roots of contemporary media fandom back into history to show that people have always had the urge to "fix" or expand on their favorite fictional worlds!

Thanks for sharing.