How many shades of what?

My brain doesn't want me to work on anything productive today (by which I mean paying copy). Instead, it wants to play, and write fanfiction.

I'm an odd duck among writers. I love fanfiction. I know there are writers out there who think fanfiction is TEH EVIL OMG!!!! I'm not one of them. I love fanfiction. I write it, I read it, and if it ever comes out that there is fanfiction of one of my works, I will know that I've made it. It means that someone likes what I write enough to want to play...