Fanfiction, according to Wikipedia, is fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator. In the other words, it's a form of narrative story (pl.opowiadanie) that based on someone's book or movie.
Polish version of fanfictions is very cute, because it is 'fanficzki' (or 'fanfiki'), but many people use only the English name.
Some people criticise fanfictions, but I don't share their opinion. I rather agree with persons like this:
The most popular page with fans' creativity is fanfiction.net. There are thousands of fanfiction (e.g. there are over 736K fanfictions of Harry Potter). The FF are nearly in every language - of course also in Polish, but even in Latin. An interesting is the fact that not every authors allow to write fanfictions based on their books, e.g. Nora Roberts. But it's rare - for the most part authors are enjoyed when their fans like their books so much that they create something about the authors' world. Thanks to that, a lot of people get to know of the plot and they want to read the original, so they buy the creator's book. And it's a profit for the writer :)
Writing fanfictions is a great idea, because it allows us to develop your language. What's more, writing them is much easier than original stories, because you don't need to create the fictional world, characters etc. Also reading is great, because fans develop a story of an author and they add some new information, which the writer omitted.
Obviously, there are also stupid fanfictions that make you wonder if the author of was drunk while writing it :D The best strategy is just to ignore these creativity and to focus on normal stories.
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| My funny creativity^^ |
I write my stories only from time to time. When I find my old stories, especially from primary school, I read them and I'm embarrassed how poor my language was back then :P
Except for fanfictions, I write also 'normal' stories which I created from basics. But I don't publish it anywhere. I only send them to my friend who evaluates it (sometimes very strict, but it's the point of criticism). And she does the same thing, i.e. she sends me her stories and I evaluate.
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| When I'm away from home, I am used to writing in my favourite notebook |
Some time ago I started writing fanfiction to "Hetalia". It is a Japanese comic which tells a story of countries showed as people. For example, Poland is the man named Feliks Łukasiewicz; he is on the right side of this blog. I wrote about him earlier.
The general concept of Hetalia is very intereting, but this comic is hated by everyone. It is because it shows history from Japanese point of view, so there are a lot of historical mistakes, such as IIww. Hidekazu Himaruya, the author, presents Japan as an aggrieved country and Poland was the worst country which caused this war. It's difficult to not be angry... And these mistakes concerned all the countries. That's why the readers catched on his conspect and they started to create their own Hetalia, with correct historical facts. I've decided to join them :)
I write in English, because it's a good opportunity to develop my language skills, but the main reason was that more people can read it ;) It's really, really nice to read comments from people who like my story... Every time I'm shocked and I ask myself 'Why do you like it? After all, I make a lot of mistakes... So why???' ^^'
I haven't write my version of Hetalia from a long time and now I have motivation to do it more often ;)
In the next post there will be the first part of my story.
I hope you'll enjoy reading it ;)
It's great to know that you write your own stories, and that some of them are in English is even better. I guess it gives you a very strong motivation to make your writing as good as possible. Keep it up, and do share some of your stories with us, by all means!
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