I've read fanfiction, mostly parodies, just to get a good laugh at some of my favorite stuff. I even wrote an explicit parody play on my novel, Witch Tourniquet. I would love for someone to make a parody out of my work! I don't care if the characters are OOC or not. Its FANfiction, for God's sake. I hate it when people whine and rant about characters being OOC in fanfiction.
When I first began writing I inadvertently wrote it without knowing it was fanfiction. My first ever story was a clash between the Magic Treehouse Books and Spyro. It actually became a little novella because I used Jack and Annie as the characters and re-wrote the entire first game of Spyro using those characters. I also did a Staurt Little fanfiction without realizing it. Eventually I began to write my own, original things after that when I got into the third grade. I wrote two short stories--about twenty pages--about a little polar bear named Snowflake. I also tried writing a novella called "From Texas to Tennessee" based off a funny game my friends and I played. Never finished it for some reason. I also tried to write a little novella called "Making Maple Syrup" about a girl living on the prairie--character was based off one of my stuffed dolls. I then went on to this awful Dark Cat series that might as well have been a rip-off of Sailormoon with cat ears. Then, in the fourth grade, I wrote another novella that was my own, original work. In the fifth grade, I wrote my first novel inspired by Harry Potter. Obviously, I never did anything with that.
Fanfiction's a great launching point for young writers. I think writing, no matter what kind, is hard regardless of whether you're using someone else's characters or not. I can't say I really respect fanfiction written from writers who should be writing other things--basically writers who are already writing original things. I also turn a funny eye on people who take their fanfiction too seriously. I don't know...I don't have a problem with people who write for fun, but I do have a problem with people who write for fun and take it too seriously, and yet they don't want to do anything with it; it's a waste to me. I don't understand why someone who writes for fun would post a story for feedback. I mean, if they're just going to write for fun for the rest of their lives, then why do they seek criticism?
I haven't written fanfiction since the second grade, though. I would be flattered, however, if someone wrote fanfiction of my stuff.
