Filipino ReaderCon 2014 – Filipino Friday 3: What do you think of fanfiction?
Happy Halloween! In a few minutes, it will be November, and we will be a couple of weeks away from the Filipino ReaderCon 2014. It seems so fast. And because it feels that way, let’s get straight ahead to the admittedly late Filipino Friday 3: Fanfiction is pretty popular, no doubt about it, but it has been received with mixed feelings by many authors and writers. Some don’t mind it, and even welcome readers who give their own spin on their work. Some writers don’t like it at all, to the point that they contact fanfiction authors to take their work down. Others use it as a jump-off point for their own writing. How about you? What is your take on fanfiction? Do you read fanfiction, and if you do, what kind of fanfiction do you read? Do you write fanfiction, and why? Or are you against fanfiction? Enlighten us. Well, I don’t read fanfiction and whatever I say about it should be taken with a grain of salt. I don’t even have much to say because I …