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.
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Table of contents
- We Don't Need No Elephants in Fandom
- 1: Fic and Fiction — It's All Fine
- Speak for Yourself (and Take Up Space)
- • Atlin Merrick
- Building on the Bones of What's Come Before
- Fire & Water
- In Defense of Fanfiction
- • L.S.
- Can't Stop the Signal
- An Infinite Variety
- • Jayantika Ganguly
- Standing Out and Beating the Odds
- I Don't Like It, I Love It: Fanfiction as Literature
- • Ann McClellan
- Where the Light Enters
- A Love Affair: Why Pros and Non-Pros Write Fic
- 2: Revelations, Friendship & Other Biggies – How fic and fandom shape us
- The Performance Psychology of Fandom
- 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
- Xena and Gabrielle
- Transformative
- • Andrea L Farley (aka Altocello)
- Losing and Finding My Voice
- Fandom Safe Spaces and the Limitless Ideas of Fic
- • Monica Micio
- Sympathy for the Devil: Attachment Theory and Fanfiction
- 3: Going Pro is Up to You – Thoughts on how and why
- You're More Talented Than You Think
- What If I Fly?
- • Amy Murphy
- Fanfiction Doesn't Play by the Rules
- Plot Bunnies
- 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
- All Stories Grow (A Mythical 221B)
- 4: Writing Nitty Gritty – Getting down to the business of doing
- Fandom Taught Me to Finish
- • K. Caine
- BICHOK
- Stealing From the Thief of Time
- • Dimitra Stathopoulos
- Flights of Fancy: How to Build the Research Runway
- Star Wars and Rocky Horror Crossover
- A Language Not My Own
- How to Write a Book: Don't Forget the Kneepads
- • Kameo Llyn Douglas (aka Kristine Polisciano)
- Add Goats: Fic, Fooling Your Brain, and The Janet Watson Chronicles
- Down the Research Rabbit-Hole…and Back Out Again
- 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
- Stop Comparing Yourself to Other Writers
- • Sara Dobie Bauer
- Depression, My Cephalopod
- The Gift of Fan Writing Communities
- Death of the Author (Baby in the Bathwater)
- • E.C. Foxglove
- Why Writer's Block Is Your Friend
- The Fine Art of Positive Feedback
- • May Shepard
- Dear Writing Friends
- 6: Take Away Message – What fandom means to us
- A Highly Improbable Community
- Susanah Dean, Gunslinger
- Widening the Lens: Writing Beyond Lived Experience
- • Audra McCauley
- Don't Give Me Heroes That I'd Happily Set on Fire
- Let this Day Be Your Beginning
- Changing the Script: Fandom Innovates
- • Henry Jenkins
- What If We Were Always The Author-Gods? (A Validation Of Our Own)
- • Melissa A. Hofmann
- Fantastically Creative Ways
- • Michael Bond
- Transformations
- Courage Works – And Your Joy is Enough
- Fangirls Save the World
- Acknowledgements
- Artist Biographies
- Glossary of Fandom
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