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Today, we’re trying something new – namely, a professional editor is going to be diving into our (digital) mailbag and answering your questions. While we’re totally committed to a continued dialogue in our comments, some of your questions are unique enough that they deserved their own forum, so here we are! We’ll be doing this again soon, so if you have a specific question you’d like answered, …
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There you are, writing some contemporary or YA fiction, when suddenly you feel the urge to drop in some real-world references to other well-known franchises. Maybe you want to let your readers know your character is a video game nerd by namedropping Ghouls ’n Ghosts, or maybe you want to draw conscious stylistic parallels between your own spooky Americana short story and The Twilight Zone and The …
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We’ve written before about making sure your protagonist is interesting enough – that they have goals, a personality, and compelling flaws. They’re all essential steps to putting your reader in the company of someone they want to spend time with. Unfortunately, writing a great protagonist is one of the hardest tightrope walks of writing, and it’s incredibly easy to take all this too far. If you do, …
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Some of the most popular pieces of art in our lives are fan fiction. From movies based on ancient myths to classic literary characters reimagined in the modern day, there’s no shortage of top-quality, mass-appeal fan fiction in the zeitgeist. And yet often the label ‘fan fiction’ is used derisively, as a synonym for ‘low quality’. At Standoutbooks we know that’s not the case, so in this article …
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Every author hopes for a large, vocal fan base, but in an age where the internet makes starting a community as easy as starting a conversation, many are finding that their readers have gone further than they ever expected. It’s not unusual for particularly rich worlds and characters to inspire fan fiction. These stories, penned by studious fans of the originals, often take established …
[Read more...] about Should You Stop Your Fans Writing Fan Fiction?
Some stories involve us so deeply that they can no longer be enjoyed passively: a character or setting grabs a reader in a way that only creation can satisfy. For these readers, writing fan fiction stories featuring pre-existing aspects of other works is a fantastic outlet for their creativity and their love of a particular story. Fan fiction stories can be incredibly high quality, after all …
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