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as_others_see_usFrom a The Swanee Purple (University of the South) piece by Frances Marion Givhan on a recent '"Litter"ature'-focused gathering: The members of the Writing House requested that attendants bring a piece of badly written literature to read, which ended up including excerpts from fanfiction, poetry, and one particular shampoo bottle.
In 'Quit Calling Them My "Internet" Friends' for GOOD Magazine, Tasbeeh Herwees wrote my parents prohibited me from MySpace, monitored my AIM chats, supervised my NeoPets accounts. But this didn’t stop me from posting Green Day-inspired political poetry to my FictionPress page or penning short stories about Harry Potter for FanFiction.net under an anonymous screenname (LibyanPrincess92, if you must know).
In 'Examining Celebrities in the Age of Internet,' Washington Square News’s Hailey Nuthals wrote Facts, fanfiction and speculation are all compiled to form the most complete portrait possible of their favorite celebrities in 2016.
From Nathan Smith in Knoxville Mercury: Backward ‘Slash’: Coming-of-Age Flick Offers a Half-Hearted Defense of Fan Fiction.
In a piece about really, really, really being into Lost, Chris Silvini noted that the show premiered back in the days where downloading shows was in its infancy and the idea of streaming seemed like something ripped from the pages of Star Trek fan-fiction.
For The Weekender, Mike Sullivan wrote that Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Based on a gimmicky Ransom Riggs young adult novel that tied eerie Victorian photographs into a story that played like a barely reworked first draft of a Steam Punk/X-Men fanfiction novella.
For The Charger (University of New Haven), Angela Tricarico wrote With an already large fandom that seems to be growing daily, Check, Please! is surely about to become one of the biggest web originals on the internet.
In 'A short history of famous people talking about the memes they became' for The Washington Post, Abby Ohlheiser wrote, of the Demi Lovato "Poot" meme, Tumblr users went nuts for this meme, and soon Poot had a backstory, and was the inspiration for fan fiction.
Daniel Newman assured Forbes readers that Iris scanning for logging into consumer devices isn’t James Bond fanfiction.
According to Amanda Moore in Parent Herald, The BeChloe [Beca (Anna Kendrick) and Chloe (Brittany Snow)] phenomenon has been brewing since the first "Pitch Perfect" film released in 2012 and there have been a lot of fan fiction dedicated to the characters falling in love with each other. It looks like the people behind the movie might finally give what the fans want.
In a piece about Southside With You for The Guardian, Lola Okolosie wrote No need to trawl the interweb looking for fan-fiction imagining the couple’s bright, love-filled future once the closing credits roll – we know it ends happily ever after. Sort of.
Calgary Herald’s Eric Volmers wrote about a gathering of Heartland fans, including a Finnish woman who writes Heartland fan fiction and interacts online with fellow "Heartland Heads" from across the globe.
In a review of Laure Eve’s The Graces for The Collegian (Fresno State), Selina Falcon described the book as a borderline fanfiction-retelling of "Twilight".
In 'A Cussed Letdown' for Economic & Political Weekly, Srishti Chaudhary wrote One of the better terms to describe Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is “author-sanctioned fan fiction.”
Sequim Gazette Reporter’s Matthew Nash wrote that local author Calinda B.’s "Meeting With My Maker" a paranormal romance, comes out Oct. 24 online with preorders available at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Her science fiction tale "Night Whispers" comes out Dec. 2 online, too. Her Kindle World Book "A Twist of Love," a romance fan-fiction based on Melissa Foster's "The Remingtons" series, also comes out this year on Amazon.
In a profile of author E.K. Johnston for Waterlo Region Record, Jeff Hicks shared that The Laurier-schooled forensic archeologist had many occupations while she honed her writing craft with a slew of fan fiction projects over the last 15 years.
Been wondering what happened with ClintonKaine.com? According to CNET’s Laura Hautala, The former fan fiction site no longer features a cartoon portraying Hillary Clinton as a wizard much like Harry Potter. Instead, you'll find links to news stories and commentary that criticize and critique the Democratic presidential candidate.
Finally, in 'Margaret Atwood explains why she rewrote Shakespeare' for The Globe and Mail, J. Kelly Nestruck wrote In Hag-seed, the prisoner-actors offer up a series of possible aftermaths to The Tempest – a succession of chapters I suggest reads like Shakespeare fan-fic. "Of course, much of what we think of as classical literature is fanfic," Atwood notes, quite correctly. "We have the Iliad. We have Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressida. And then we have Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida."
In 'Quit Calling Them My "Internet" Friends' for GOOD Magazine, Tasbeeh Herwees wrote my parents prohibited me from MySpace, monitored my AIM chats, supervised my NeoPets accounts. But this didn’t stop me from posting Green Day-inspired political poetry to my FictionPress page or penning short stories about Harry Potter for FanFiction.net under an anonymous screenname (LibyanPrincess92, if you must know).
In 'Examining Celebrities in the Age of Internet,' Washington Square News’s Hailey Nuthals wrote Facts, fanfiction and speculation are all compiled to form the most complete portrait possible of their favorite celebrities in 2016.
From Nathan Smith in Knoxville Mercury: Backward ‘Slash’: Coming-of-Age Flick Offers a Half-Hearted Defense of Fan Fiction.
In a piece about really, really, really being into Lost, Chris Silvini noted that the show premiered back in the days where downloading shows was in its infancy and the idea of streaming seemed like something ripped from the pages of Star Trek fan-fiction.
For The Weekender, Mike Sullivan wrote that Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Based on a gimmicky Ransom Riggs young adult novel that tied eerie Victorian photographs into a story that played like a barely reworked first draft of a Steam Punk/X-Men fanfiction novella.
For The Charger (University of New Haven), Angela Tricarico wrote With an already large fandom that seems to be growing daily, Check, Please! is surely about to become one of the biggest web originals on the internet.
In 'A short history of famous people talking about the memes they became' for The Washington Post, Abby Ohlheiser wrote, of the Demi Lovato "Poot" meme, Tumblr users went nuts for this meme, and soon Poot had a backstory, and was the inspiration for fan fiction.
Daniel Newman assured Forbes readers that Iris scanning for logging into consumer devices isn’t James Bond fanfiction.
According to Amanda Moore in Parent Herald, The BeChloe [Beca (Anna Kendrick) and Chloe (Brittany Snow)] phenomenon has been brewing since the first "Pitch Perfect" film released in 2012 and there have been a lot of fan fiction dedicated to the characters falling in love with each other. It looks like the people behind the movie might finally give what the fans want.
In a piece about Southside With You for The Guardian, Lola Okolosie wrote No need to trawl the interweb looking for fan-fiction imagining the couple’s bright, love-filled future once the closing credits roll – we know it ends happily ever after. Sort of.
Calgary Herald’s Eric Volmers wrote about a gathering of Heartland fans, including a Finnish woman who writes Heartland fan fiction and interacts online with fellow "Heartland Heads" from across the globe.
In a review of Laure Eve’s The Graces for The Collegian (Fresno State), Selina Falcon described the book as a borderline fanfiction-retelling of "Twilight".
In 'A Cussed Letdown' for Economic & Political Weekly, Srishti Chaudhary wrote One of the better terms to describe Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is “author-sanctioned fan fiction.”
Sequim Gazette Reporter’s Matthew Nash wrote that local author Calinda B.’s "Meeting With My Maker" a paranormal romance, comes out Oct. 24 online with preorders available at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Her science fiction tale "Night Whispers" comes out Dec. 2 online, too. Her Kindle World Book "A Twist of Love," a romance fan-fiction based on Melissa Foster's "The Remingtons" series, also comes out this year on Amazon.
In a profile of author E.K. Johnston for Waterlo Region Record, Jeff Hicks shared that The Laurier-schooled forensic archeologist had many occupations while she honed her writing craft with a slew of fan fiction projects over the last 15 years.
Been wondering what happened with ClintonKaine.com? According to CNET’s Laura Hautala, The former fan fiction site no longer features a cartoon portraying Hillary Clinton as a wizard much like Harry Potter. Instead, you'll find links to news stories and commentary that criticize and critique the Democratic presidential candidate.
Finally, in 'Margaret Atwood explains why she rewrote Shakespeare' for The Globe and Mail, J. Kelly Nestruck wrote In Hag-seed, the prisoner-actors offer up a series of possible aftermaths to The Tempest – a succession of chapters I suggest reads like Shakespeare fan-fic. "Of course, much of what we think of as classical literature is fanfic," Atwood notes, quite correctly. "We have the Iliad. We have Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressida. And then we have Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida."
