Spark
eBook - ePub

Spark

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Spark

About this book

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

  1. We Don't Need No Elephants in Fandom
  2. 1: Fic and Fiction — It's All Fine
  3. Speak for Yourself (and Take Up Space)
  4. • Atlin Merrick
  5. Building on the Bones of What's Come Before
  6. Fire & Water
  7. In Defense of Fanfiction
  8. • L.S.
  9. Can't Stop the Signal
  10. An Infinite Variety
  11. • Jayantika Ganguly
  12. Standing Out and Beating the Odds
  13. I Don't Like It, I Love It: Fanfiction as Literature
  14. • Ann McClellan
  15. Where the Light Enters
  16. A Love Affair: Why Pros and Non-Pros Write Fic
  17. 2: Revelations, Friendship & Other Biggies – How fic and fandom shape us
  18. The Performance Psychology of Fandom
  19. Fandom and Finding (or Accepting) Your Sexuality
  20. • Jamie Ashbird
  21. Boldly Going Where No Amputee Has Gone Before: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Self-Insert OCs
  22. Xena and Gabrielle
  23. Transformative
  24. • Andrea L Farley (aka Altocello)
  25. Losing and Finding My Voice
  26. Fandom Safe Spaces and the Limitless Ideas of Fic
  27. • Monica Micio
  28. Sympathy for the Devil: Attachment Theory and Fanfiction
  29. 3: Going Pro is Up to You – Thoughts on how and why
  30. You're More Talented Than You Think
  31. What If I Fly?
  32. • Amy Murphy
  33. Fanfiction Doesn't Play by the Rules
  34. Plot Bunnies
  35. The Best of Both Worlds: Fanfic & Licensed Fiction
  36. • George Ivanoff
  37. Down the Barrel of Someday (3 Keys for Actually Doing)
  38. • Darcy Lindbergh
  39. From Fanfic Writer to Screenwriter
  40. • Melissa Good
  41. Filing Off the Serial Numbers: A Rambling Guide
  42. All Stories Grow (A Mythical 221B)
  43. 4: Writing Nitty Gritty – Getting down to the business of doing
  44. Fandom Taught Me to Finish
  45. • K. Caine
  46. BICHOK
  47. Stealing From the Thief of Time
  48. • Dimitra Stathopoulos
  49. Flights of Fancy: How to Build the Research Runway
  50. Star Wars and Rocky Horror Crossover
  51. A Language Not My Own
  52. How to Write a Book: Don't Forget the Kneepads
  53. • Kameo Llyn Douglas (aka Kristine Polisciano)
  54. Add Goats: Fic, Fooling Your Brain, and The Janet Watson Chronicles
  55. Down the Research Rabbit-Hole…and Back Out Again
  56. 5: Staying the Course – Coping with setbacks and self-doubt
  57. The Garbage Will Do (On Writing Rubbish)
  58. • Claire O'Dell, Lyndsay Faye, George Ivanoff, KJ Charles, Natalie Conyer
  59. Actually, No Work is Garbage
  60. Stop Comparing Yourself to Other Writers
  61. • Sara Dobie Bauer
  62. Depression, My Cephalopod
  63. The Gift of Fan Writing Communities
  64. Death of the Author (Baby in the Bathwater)
  65. • E.C. Foxglove
  66. Why Writer's Block Is Your Friend
  67. The Fine Art of Positive Feedback
  68. • May Shepard
  69. Dear Writing Friends
  70. 6: Take Away Message – What fandom means to us
  71. A Highly Improbable Community
  72. Susanah Dean, Gunslinger
  73. Widening the Lens: Writing Beyond Lived Experience
  74. • Audra McCauley
  75. Don't Give Me Heroes That I'd Happily Set on Fire
  76. Let this Day Be Your Beginning
  77. Changing the Script: Fandom Innovates
  78. • Henry Jenkins
  79. What If We Were Always The Author-Gods? (A Validation Of Our Own)
  80. • Melissa A. Hofmann
  81. Fantastically Creative Ways
  82. • Michael Bond
  83. Transformations
  84. Courage Works – And Your Joy is Enough
  85. Fangirls Save the World
  86. Acknowledgements
  87. Artist Biographies
  88. Glossary of Fandom