Sarah M Vasquez

Freelance Journalist. Poynter fellow. Texas State graduate. 31-year-old trapped in a 24-year-old body. Coffee Addict. Nerd.
Fifty Shades of Grey began as Twilight fan fiction →

austinkleon:

That’s right: a book that’s sold over 40 million copies worldwide began as fan fiction. I had no idea.

Wikipedia:

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name “Snowqueen’s Icedragon”. The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer’s characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fan-fiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote Master of the Universe as an original piece, with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website prior to publication.

In Steal Like An Artist, I wrote that “All fiction is fan fiction,” which I realized later I stole from Dan Chaon.

Via Chris Glass. Filed under: fan fiction

I’m not surprised by this and it makes me cry a little bit on the inside.

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    More than just coincidence and common subject matter of obsessive/fanatic/weird love
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    Fan fiction of a wildly successful novel series turning into a wildly successful novel series. Interesting.
  5. sarahmvasquez reblogged this from austinkleon and added:
    I’m not surprised by this and it makes me cry a little bit on the inside.
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    #MADO OMG beth i knew this from day 1 fcdkkfjs
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    I mean, file this under ‘last to know’ but this is at least a good summary.
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  17. mywildandpreciouslife13 said: explains the quality of the prose
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    No wonder it sucks.
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