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Career Building Through Fanfiction
Dec. 30th, 2008 11:42 pmThe library yesterday was crazy busy. As soon as I got out of the truck at noon to open, people were there. It didn't really let up until 5:00-ish. There were lulls, but it was delivery day so even those were busy.
But I did get a chuckle out of one of the new books that came in, Career Building Through Fan Fiction Writing: New Work Based on Favorite Fiction. I had to quickly check the author to see if it was one of my professors. It's not.
I only flipped through it (like I said, busy), but I wasn't too impressed. The author covered what fanfiction is, where to find it, where to publish it, what to do with it, etc. The joys of posting and getting comments. Very basic stuff. Specifically, I saw that she sent into Buffy a little as well as Star Trek (the part I read was in conjunction with Mary Sues and Wesley Crusher). House got a mention only because Cameron has some sort of nickname. I guess? ::shrug::
And not a mention of slash to be found. Which I thought was really bizarre until I looked at the call number and realized it was cataloged "Young Adult." Which maybe doesn't make a difference, but people can be weird about things like that. I mean, it's not a long book, but it did feel lacking. In general, I mean. Not just in the slash department.
It was also strange to keep running into fanfiction as two words.
But I did get a chuckle out of one of the new books that came in, Career Building Through Fan Fiction Writing: New Work Based on Favorite Fiction. I had to quickly check the author to see if it was one of my professors. It's not.
I only flipped through it (like I said, busy), but I wasn't too impressed. The author covered what fanfiction is, where to find it, where to publish it, what to do with it, etc. The joys of posting and getting comments. Very basic stuff. Specifically, I saw that she sent into Buffy a little as well as Star Trek (the part I read was in conjunction with Mary Sues and Wesley Crusher). House got a mention only because Cameron has some sort of nickname. I guess? ::shrug::
And not a mention of slash to be found. Which I thought was really bizarre until I looked at the call number and realized it was cataloged "Young Adult." Which maybe doesn't make a difference, but people can be weird about things like that. I mean, it's not a long book, but it did feel lacking. In general, I mean. Not just in the slash department.
It was also strange to keep running into fanfiction as two words.
