Thoughts for Thursday: Playing in Someone Else’s Sandbox

Originally posted on Romance Writers Weekly:

by Xio Axelrod

You may think you know what fan fiction is, and maybe you do. For some people, it’s a wonderland of naughty designed to appeal to our most fannish fantasies. For others, it’s a chance to “right” the “wrongs” done to our beloved characters by their mean ol’ creators. (How dare you kill Wash, Joss Whedon!?)

And for others, likely the majority, fan fiction is…a joke. Bad writing, Mary Sue characters, and smutty smut-filled smut. (I don’t see a problem with that last one, by the way.)

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