Everyone who reads both books and fanfiction knows there’s a clear difference in reading speed. While a 500 page book might take a week to get through, reading at “fanfiction speed” can allow a reader ...

The Outsiders. Photo: Jed Egan/Photo: Nancy Moran/Sygma/Corbis, Warner Bros. We tend to think of the fanfiction writer as an obsessed amateur, pounding away at the keyboard for sheer love of the ...

What if Harry Potter had ended up with Hermione — or Draco Malfoy, for that matter? In the world of fanfiction, where amateur writers spin new tales involving famous characters and other pop culture ...

Fanfiction authors often come under attack for writing plots and characters taken from someone else’s world when they could be writing their own stories. Many people believe that fanfiction writers ...

The best books on writing tend to be well, if not beautifully, written. But I have found that great books about writing great fiction — such as those by Eudora Welty and E Lily Yu — often contain ...

Until recently, depression and anxiety extinguished any motivation in me to write creatively. Other than some poems written sporadically, every time I made an attempt to write I was filled with dread ...