Subject: Re: [FFML] Why Write Fanfics?
From: Yujon3D
Date: 7/21/1999, 8:15 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com
Reply-to:
Yujon3D@concentric.net

msimmons@bcgroup.net wrote:

I was asked a question the other day that touched on something I
hadn't really thought about.  A friend asked me "Why do you write
fanfics anyway?"  After a while, I'm pretty sure I have my own
answer.  But I'd be interested in hearing others.

Why do you write fanfics anyway?

   I answered this question on an OutsideTheLines discussion list 
not long ago, but it can apply here...

   Most of my reason for writing fan-fiction lies with the fact 
that I have a creative mind.  I got my start with American comic-
books and originally dreamed of being a comicbook artist.  When 
Japanese animation series and manga (comics) began to get trans-
lated and published in the States, my preferences switched to 
them, and my storytelling and art styles shifted to that genre 
as well.

   Although I still write American superhero fan-fiction as a 
way of expressing things which I think /should/ have been done 
in popular American comicbooks, with anime and manga the feeling 
is different.  I tend not to see anything wrong with the stories 
as they've already been told (at least in most of the best se-
ries), so I play it like a "What If?" or write stories which 
could fit into the established continuity of the series.  My 
first anime fanfic was a Zeta Gundam short of the latter type.

   In the end, fan-fiction is my way of vicariously living out 
my childhood dream of being a comicbook writer/artist, even 
though I still reserve time for pursuing that dream as an adult.

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