OTW Fannews: Fanfiction for Fans

[otw-staff.livejournal.com]

• Fanfiction has moved surprisingly quickly from a rarely-spoken-of pastime to something celebrities acknowledge reading, people want to bring into literary canon, or be seen doing, or even writing their college admission essays about. However the activity's newfound popularity is rarely portrayed as part of the fannish impulse to create a shared canon, leading to an awful lot of focus on professional rewards.
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