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Welcome to part 2 of our article on ‘origifying’ fan fiction into something that stands (and can be sold) on its own two feet. In part 1 (available here), we discussed the basic logic of how to turn fan fiction into original work, and we began addressing superficial differences and cutting any ties that don’t serve our new story. In this, part 2, we’ll be getting a lot more practical, and since …
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In one form or another, fan fiction has always been part of literature. Before books, oral storytelling meant that you were always telling your version of a tale you heard elsewhere, and famous works like Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and basically any of Shakespeare’s plays all depict characters and events their creators found elsewhere and put to their own use. Joyce’s …
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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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