Fanfiction--not just having the ideas in one's head, but writing them down--isn't all that intuitive a concept.
I totally and utterly disagree with that. I've been writing fanfic practically since I could write - it was completely natural to me, to fantasize and imagine stories engaging with whatever I'd just read or watched, and then to write that down. In fact, I was very surprised to discover there were a lot of fans who never did that.
(Interestingly, I mostly stopped writing fanfic after I actually came into fandom, because other people did it so much better. *g* I still imagine, but the urge to write it down has faded.)
Not that I don't agree that we can only talk about what we see, which is the fic produced within the community - but I believe the difference is in degree, not in kind.
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Date: 2007-04-13 12:02 pm (UTC)I totally and utterly disagree with that. I've been writing fanfic practically since I could write - it was completely natural to me, to fantasize and imagine stories engaging with whatever I'd just read or watched, and then to write that down. In fact, I was very surprised to discover there were a lot of fans who never did that.
(Interestingly, I mostly stopped writing fanfic after I actually came into fandom, because other people did it so much better. *g* I still imagine, but the urge to write it down has faded.)
Not that I don't agree that we can only talk about what we see, which is the fic produced within the community - but I believe the difference is in degree, not in kind.