OTW Fannews: Improving on the Original

"A load of [Sherlock fan fiction] has been superb. There’s a tendency to disparage it. I don’t agree. Even the slash fiction, that’s a great way to learn to work. No one really does three-act structure, but just trying to put words that make somebody else turned on, that’s going to teach you more about writing than any writing college you can go to. It’s creative and exciting. I refuse to mock it—because I’m a man who writes Sherlock Holmes fan fiction for a living!" -Steven Moffat
Fans have been raising money to resurrect projects, but is it even better when it's a fanfic version? http://bit.ly/1aSzamG