Abstract
After reading Gossip Girl, I explored several pieces of fan fiction related to the series that were created by teen authors. From these pieces, I observed how teens can use fan fiction to exercise their own creative ideas, align a fictional world with their own, connect with other fans and writers, and receive instant feedback on their work. From these findings, I suggest how teachers and librarians can use this knowledge to support teens that are engaged or interested in the practices of writing fan fiction and writing for pleasure.
Highlights
Fanfiction.net, an online fan fiction archive site, currently has over 5,800 titles about Gossip Girl, a series of books aimed at teens that has been developed into a TV show
Why Write Fan Fiction? The practice of fan fiction has existed for decades, but scholarly writing on the subject has only emerged over the last several years, and little has been written that focuses on teens and fan fiction
Collins (2006), in one of the few articles that has researched the goals and motivations of fan fiction writers, concludes: readers seeking to [repeat the original experience of reading a particular work of fiction] can perhaps find what they are looking for in fan fiction if aspiring fan fiction writers are capable of supplying answers to questions left by the original author in a manner that does justice to that author's style or writers can provide a unique but feasible insight into the original work. (p. 38) Thomas (2007) focuses on the experiences of two teen girls who were cowriting a piece of fan fiction
Summary
Fanfiction.net, an online fan fiction archive site, currently has over 5,800 titles about Gossip Girl, a series of books aimed at teens that has been developed into a TV show. I will conclude with a recommendation of some ways in which librarians, teachers, and others can incorporate fan fiction into their collections, spaces, lessons and programs in order to better serve the teens who create fan fiction
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