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Oct. 29th, 2003 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockHow do you describe fanfiction to someone whose never heard of it before, and make it sound cool?
Every time I explain it I feel embarrassed, like I'm admitting that I still sleep with a teddybear or something childish like that.
But it's not a childish topic to me-- it's my hobby! And I take it seriously.
So how do you tell someone about it, without sounding stupid or crazy?
I want actual examples of dialogue suggestions, here. Tell me what to say.
Every time I explain it I feel embarrassed, like I'm admitting that I still sleep with a teddybear or something childish like that.
But it's not a childish topic to me-- it's my hobby! And I take it seriously.
So how do you tell someone about it, without sounding stupid or crazy?
I want actual examples of dialogue suggestions, here. Tell me what to say.
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Date: 2003-10-29 12:35 pm (UTC)I'd probably compare it to Wicked, which is on Broadway now, or Confessions or a Wicked Stepsister, or Grendel, or the Wiz, or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, or any other well-known and liked retelling of a traditional story.
I'd say "yeah, we take the basic elements of some pop culture story that we like, and we recombine them and take them in totally new directions. You can turn drama into tragedy, tragedy into farce, you can throw characters together who've never met, you can fix mistakes or jump ahead into the future, you can do parodies, it's awesome. Plus there's really hot sex."
But that's just me.
Mer