What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

At first blush, fanfiction is easy enough to define: as any fan-produced writing that utilises the settings and/or characters of other stories. Because fanwriters have no proprietary claim to their borrowed protagonists, fanfiction tends overwhelmingly to be produced and distributed for free – a literal labour of love. But the functionality of this definition is swiftly undermined when you consider the vast wealth of professionally produced stories which borrow from public domain, rather than copyrighted, narratives, or which reference mythological or cultural stories rather than professional fiction. In every instance, the impulse towards borrowing, reinvention and narrative interdependence is the same, regardless of whether the writer is drawing on copyrighted material or something else, and when you consider that one can simultaneously be a fan and a professional writer, it becomes increasingly difficult to draw any rigid distinctions between fanwriting and the other kind without hinging your definition, not on the type of story being told, but on whether the writer has permission to sell it.

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