Fanfiction

Definition from Urban Dictionary:

Fanfiction [also spelled fan fiction and fanfic(s)] – n. Stories written by fans of a certain TV show, cartoon, anime, book, or movie using existing plots, characters, or ideas from the series then continuing the story, adding new characters, changing the ending, or changing the plot.

Really, that is just a broad definition of what a really fanfiction is. Fanfiction are a group of stories that allows readers to shape the characters and the plots they love to fit their imaginations. To change the roles and the situations that was previously written and adjust them to their own likings.

Of course, there are some writers who don’t do the story justice and write a crappy form of the anime/manga that results in “flaming” or really “constructive criticism.” At the same time there are actually a few fanfics that grab me and pulls me in. (Note from this point of the post and on, I’ll be referring only to those “good” fanfics, unless otherwise noted.) They grab my attention and keep me hanging on by threads that won’t let me go no matter how hard i try to pull away. The way the story captures the true natures of the characters and puts them in situations that has me building the picture deep within my mind.

Some fanfics can grab your emotions and push them to extremes as you feel what the character feels, get drawn in by all the situations that are occurring, and be dragged by a thought through a thousand words of charged and passionate sentences that take your breath away without a second thought. In times like these, you become inspired to read more and even write fanfictions of your own.

And sometimes the type of fanfictions you read may be categorized into their own specific categories such as AAMRN’s (Ash and Misty Romance Novels) or SasuSaku’s (Sasuke and Sakura Romance Novels).

Of course, you have many categories of fanfiction. And searching for them may be quite confusing at first, so here is the common method of searching through fanfictions. (This is through the use of fanfiction.net and similar sights.)
1. You can first search for the type of Anime or Manga you want to read. So we’ll use Pokemon in this example.
2. Then you can follow up with the rating of the book from General Audience to a Mature Rating.
3. After that you can follow up with the type of Genre you want, which ranges from romance to an action/adventure type story.
4. Which is finished up with how long of a story you want to read, the type of writing style, or how many words the story contains.
5. After experience, you can probably tell which stories are good by just reading the first few paragraphs or your gut feeling.

So happy fanfiction hunting and enjoy reading those fan-written stories.
As a treat, here is a link to one of my favorite fanfics, it’s an AAMRN and is decently lengthy and very well written…
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1548383/1/The_Game_of_Love

- Jed