Testing the waters: a Fan Fic challenge next year?

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I know, Fan Fic & Celebrities is pretty much a dead category. I complain about SF&F often enough, but I've just looked at the FF&C story list, and it's a graveyard.

But we enjoy a challenge, don't we? And look what happened to Reviews & Essays when we did WIWAW. So in spite of all the misgivings... Would it work? Would there be any interest from writers, let alone readers?

I think it would be a great opportunity to try something different in a category most of us rarely venture into. A chance to write all those cheesy Luke and Leia fantasies, and Ross, Rachel and Monica, and perhaps something involving Velma, or Geralt of Rivia - or both of them together! Or to explore the shared past that Shagrat and Gorbag hint at in the tunnels below the Tower of Cirith Ungol, or the "true" love story of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, or what would have happened between Will and Angie if Single Parents had ever had a S3, or whether Avon and Servalan ever got together to rule the galaxy...

If this happens, it would likely be in September next year.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Retching sounds of disgust?
 
Make it interesting by restricting the fanfic to existing Lit stories. Those who want to participate will need to pick a story they want to fanfic and, of course, obtain permission from the author.
It would make things fun and would give new life to some stories, but also make us read each other's stuff more.

Just a thought.
 
*dusts off Nightmare on Elm Street fanfic*

If pure fanfic is the plan, I'm fully prepared.

If it's of another Lit author's story... Well, I'd better start reading.
 
I'll skip this one. (Not that I've done any of the challenges so far.)
I don't want to encourage the subset of authors around here who use the existence of the category to justify a pooh-pooh attitude toward co-opting other people's creative efforts. (Not that I expect lack of encouragement will make a whit of difference.)
 
I know, Fan Fic & Celebrities is pretty much a dead category. I complain about SF&F often enough, but I've just looked at the FF&C story list, and it's a graveyard.

But we enjoy a challenge, don't we? And look what happened to Reviews & Essays when we did WIWAW. So in spite of all the misgivings... Would it work? Would there be any interest from writers, let alone readers?

I think it would be a great opportunity to try something different in a category most of us rarely venture into. A chance to write all those cheesy Luke and Leia fantasies, and Ross, Rachel and Monica, and perhaps something involving Velma, or Geralt of Rivia - or both of them together! Or to explore the shared past that Shagrat and Gorbag hint at in the tunnels below the Tower of Cirith Ungol, or the "true" love story of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, or what would have happened between Will and Angie if Single Parents had ever had a S3, or whether Avon and Servalan ever got together to rule the galaxy...

If this happens, it would likely be in September next year.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Retching sounds of disgust?
I’d be up for a new Cara Loft and Juliana Jones adventure.
 
*dusts off Nightmare on Elm Street fanfic*

If pure fanfic is the plan, I'm fully prepared.

If it's of another Lit author's story... Well, I'd better start reading.
For myself I wpuldn't do another Lit Authors creation. To easy to offend someone

Now a K-pop girl-group.......LOL
 
Make it interesting by restricting the fanfic to existing Lit stories. Those who want to participate will need to pick a story they want to fanfic and, of course, obtain permission from the author.
It would make things fun and would give new life to some stories, but also make us read each other's stuff more.

Just a thought.
Wasn’t that kinda part of the point of @FreyaGersemi’s LitCon event.
 
I'd suggest just keeping it failrly broad and all-encompassing with maybe that as a suggestion
 
I know, Fan Fic & Celebrities is pretty much a dead category. I complain about SF&F often enough, but I've just looked at the FF&C story list, and it's a graveyard.

But we enjoy a challenge, don't we? And look what happened to Reviews & Essays when we did WIWAW. So in spite of all the misgivings... Would it work? Would there be any interest from writers, let alone readers?

I think it would be a great opportunity to try something different in a category most of us rarely venture into. A chance to write all those cheesy Luke and Leia fantasies, and Ross, Rachel and Monica, and perhaps something involving Velma, or Geralt of Rivia - or both of them together! Or to explore the shared past that Shagrat and Gorbag hint at in the tunnels below the Tower of Cirith Ungol, or the "true" love story of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, or what would have happened between Will and Angie if Single Parents had ever had a S3, or whether Avon and Servalan ever got together to rule the galaxy...

If this happens, it would likely be in September next year.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Retching sounds of disgust?
Avon and Servalan? Now you’re talking!!
 
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