![]() Read: The fan-fiction friendship that fueled a romance novel empireĪ fan-fiction site is a uniquely energetic learning environment. ![]() In these online communities, writers of all ages and skill levels-from adolescents still refining their grammar to professional adult authors such as Jemisin-are learning and teaching others how to write, and write well. It’s common for contributors to fan-fiction websites to see their skills develop like this. “You have to find a way to make it not just the world that people are tuning in to read, so they are interested in your story.” To this day, Jemisin said, she still writes fan fiction, and treats it as a way to try out new genres and skills, such as using the second person, which she does in the Broken Earth trilogy, which earned her the three Hugos. “Fan fiction tends to have a built-in hook because it’s written in a world you’re a fan of you’re predisposed to like it,” she said. “Around then was when I became internetted, and one of the first communities I discovered was a fan-fic community.” Through talking with other authors and writing her own stories about Dragon Ball Z (among other things), she found friends, got feedback, and, as she put it, “blew the cobwebs off writing abilities I hadn’t used since college.”įor instance, this writing helped her hone her ability to hold readers’ interest. I didn’t have a lot of friends, or stress relief,” she told me. Jemisin started writing fan fiction, in which authors imagine new stories based on preexisting fictional works, while in grad school for counseling. ![]() Jemisin, the only author to win the prestigious Hugo Award for best science-fiction or fantasy novel three years in a row, partly credits fan fiction for her ability to draw in readers. ![]()
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