| Whether they think they can do a better job than the original authors,
want to find new vistas for their favorite characters, have an idea they
would like to explore or just want to have fun, some anime and manga fans
spend hours writing new stories for the fictional people they love. A panel
of fan fiction writers took the stage during the first night of Otakon. |
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| If you keep track of the stories posted on Usenet or fan web sites,
you've noted that the stories have gotten longer over the last few years.
Author Sean Gaffney said his stories started short, and then got longer.
"I used to knock off a story in an afternoon," he said. "It's a matter
of how comfortable you feel. If you get rid of the flimsy padding, you
can make something long and keep it interesting." |
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| Authors may like longer stories, but readers may not have the time
or patience to digest a large tale at once. When a story is accepted by
the moderators of the rec.arts.anime.creative newsgroup, the moderators
susally divide the story into chapters. One of the longer stories, doled
out in daily sections, took nearly a month to distribute on Usenet. |
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| Then there's the question of sex: what inspires those tales that receive
the [LEMON] label? "I'm just a slave of my muses," author Jeff Hosmer said.
"There are times when my characters run away with the stories." Other authors
said they have a hard time writing stories where sex advances the plot,
rather than just tittilating the reader. |
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