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Title Spark : how fanfiction and fandom can set your creativity on fire / edited by Atlin Merrick.

Publication Info. Bittern, Victoria, Australia : Improbable Press, 2023.
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Summary "Spark is all about encouragement, permission, it's about firing you up. Spark: How Fanfiction and Fandom Can Set Your Creativity On Fire hopes to help you believe that your fandom writing, drawing, podficcing - whatever you're creating right now - is, was, and ever shall be legitimate, important, and a fantastic way to expand your community, develop your skills, and above all help you find your voice in the world. Spark's more than forty essays and interviews from best-selling writers Anne Jamison, Claire O'Dell, Diane Duane, Henry Jenkins, KJ Charles, Lyndsay Faye, Sara Dobie Bauer and many others discuss, encourage, and shout about how fic and fandom in all their glories can absolutely inspire you, set your creativity on fire--and change your world"--Publisher description.
Contents 1. FIC AND FICTION -- IT'S ALL FINE. We Don't Need No Elephants in Fandom / Wendy C Fries -- Speak for Yourself (and Take Up Space) / Atlin Merrick -- Building on the Bones of What's Come Before / Merinda Brayfield -- In Defense of Fanfiction / L.S. -- Can't Stop the Signal / Anne Jamison -- An Infinite Variety / Jayantika Ganguly -- Standing Out and Beating the Odds / S.H. -- I Don't Like It, I Love It: Fanfiction as Literature / Ann McClellan -- A Love Affair: Why Pros and Non-Pros Write Fic / Narrelle M. Harris -- 2. REVELATIONS, FRIENDSHIP & OTHER BIGGIES. The Performance Psychology of Fandom / Tei -- Fandom and Finding (or Accepting) Your Sexuality / Jamie Ashbird -- Boldly Going Where No Amputee Has Gone Before: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Self-Insert OCs / Sebastian Jack -- Transformative / Andrea L Farley (Altocello) -- Sympathy for the Devil: Attachment Theory and Fic / Angela Nauss, LMFT - 3. GOING PRO IS UP TO YOU -- THOUGHTS ON HOW AND WHY. You're More Talented Than You Think / Emily -- What If I Fly? / Amy Murphy -- Fanfiction Doesn't Play by the Rules / Rosalyn Hunter -- The Best of Both Worlds: Fanfic & Licensed Fiction / George Ivanoff -- Down the Barrel of Someday (3 Keys for Actually Doing) / Darcy Lindbergh -- From Fanfic Writer to Screenwriter / Melissa Good -- Filing Off the Serial Numbers: A Rambling Guide / C. Veillon-- Fandom Safe Spaces and the Limitless Ideas of Fic / Monica Micio -- Losing and Finding My Voice / Dannye Chase -- All Stories Grow (A Mythical 221B) / Carman C. Curton - 4. WRITING NITTY GRITTY-- Fandom Taught Me to Finish / K. Caine -- BICHOK / Meredith Spies -- Stealing From the Thief of Time / Dimitra Stathopoulos-- A Language Not My Own / Anarion -- Writing a Book: Bring Kneepads / Kameo Llyn Douglas (Kristine Polisciano) -- Add Goats: Fooling Your Brain & Janet Watson Chronicles / Claire O'Dell -- Down the Research Rabbit-Hole...and Back Again / Margaret Walsh - 5. STAYING THE COURSE -- COPING WITH SETBACKS and SELF-DOUBT -- The Garbage Will Do (On Writing Rubbish) / Claire O'Dell, Lyndsay Faye, George Ivanoff, KJ Charles, Natalie Conyer -- Actually, No Work is Garbage / Diane Duane -- Stop Comparing Yourself to Other Writers / Sara Dobie Bauer -- Depression, My Cephalopod / Janet Anderton -- The Gift of Fan Writing Communities / Diandra Hollman -- Death of the Author (Baby in the Bathwater) / E.C. Foxglove -- Why Writer's Block Is Your Friend / Elena Piatti -- The Fine Art of Positive Feedback / May Shepard -- Dear Writing Friends / Hannah S. - 6. TAKE AWAY MESSAGE -- WHAT FANDOM MEANS TO US -- A Highly Improbable Community / Hubblegleeflower -- Widening the Lens: Writing Beyond Lived Experience / Audra McCauley -- Don't Give Me Heroes That I'd Happily Set on Fire / KJ Charles -- Let this Day Be Your Beginning / Anarion -- Changing the Script: Fandom Innovates / Henry Jenkins -- What If We Were Always the Author-Gods? / Melissa A. Hofmann -- Fantastically Creative Ways / Michael Bond -- Transformations / Bel Murphy -- Courage Works - And Your Joy is Enough / Atlin Merrick -- Fangirls Save the World / Carman C. Curton -- ARTISTS. Fire and Water / Camille Happert -- Where the Light Enters / Andrea L Farley (Altocello) -- Xena and Gabrielle / Lucy W -- Plot Bunnies / Khorazir (Anke Eißmann) -- Star Wars and Rocky Horror Crossover / S.L. Surovec -- Susannah Dean, Gunslinger / Adalisa Zarate.
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Local Note Rider Faculty Publications. Chapter by Melissa A. Hofmann.
Subject Fan fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Fan fiction -- Social aspects.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Fans (Persons) -- Psychology.
Creative ability.
Fanfiction
Fandom
Fanworks
Fanart
Genre/Form Essays.
Interviews.
Electronic books.
Added Author Merrick, Atlin, editor.
Hofmann, Melissa A., 1975-
ISBN 1922904023 (electronic bk.)
9781922904027 (electronic bk.)
9781922904119 (hardback)
9781922904010 (paperback)