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quailfence ([personal profile] quailfence) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans 2022-10-11 05:09 pm (UTC)

After some thinking, I think that fanfic involves the following:
1. It is based on a source (another story or someone’s life/real events)
2. It is a story (thus excluding most art and meta
3. There is some kind of addition or change to the original source (thus excluding a lot of recaps or retellings, which generally try to avoid making major changes to the story)
4. It is unofficial - the original creator or rights-holder of/to the source has not created the new story, nor have they asked someone else to write it

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