Why do you write fanfics anyway?

     Because it's fun.
     That, and the compliments. One glowing letter of praise makes it all
worthwhile, man.

ENT!  (Wanderer understands that)

/me Wanderer
     For those of you who think he's insane, you're right. Hailey here is 
balls-to-the-wall stone crazy. ^_^
     However, Ent is a expression of agreement used in Trinidad. Just in 
case it was keeping you awake at night.

Plus, you read the stories that others put up, and you fell the need to 
contribute yourself.  Some authours say that you write a fanfic only for 
yourself, but that's not totally true.  Otherwise, we would never post them. 
 I write my fanfics as muct for others to read as for my own benefit.  
That's why we want others to write back telling us how they liked the story.

     Yeah, pretty much. Isn't, like, the whole point of doing anything 
creative to show it off, especially fanfic? "Here's what I did. What do 
you think?"
     I wish I had the quote readily at hand, but there's a guy at MIT who 
wrote an article about what he called the "fanfiction phenomenon", and a 
guy on alt.comics.fan-fiction uses it in his .sig-file. The quote goes 
something like "fanfiction is a method for the people to retake control 
of their myths from the corporations who have grown to control it".
     Sounds good to me.



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