Toni's 10 Fan Fiction Links

Hi Guys,

This is my first dealings with Fan Fiction. So I decided to start with my favourite authors to see what was out there.

1. Laurell K Hamilton

For this author, I found an extensive website that consists of fan fiction, character profiles, book reviews, fan art links and a bibliography of Hamilton's novels. Although this site only covers the novels and characters from one of Hamilton's series of books.

The fanfiction on this site ranged through the different characters, but most of them stay true to Hamilton's original story line. After reading a few of the entries, I realised that most of the fanfic authors struggled to capture the real essence of Hamilton's writing style. Despite this the entries were still a good read and it was interesting to see what other people think of the characters in Hamilton's novels.

2. Tamora Pierce

This fanfiction website was very well developed. With a tally being kept of how many members, stories, authors and reviews made on the website. As with the previous fanfic website, this one focused mainly around one particular set of novels. The site was easy to use with a large range of fanfic.

The quality of the fanfic varied. And I admit I did not agree with the ideas some had for one particular character, but it was interesting to see where other reader's thoughts led them.

What I also liked about this website was that you could search for stories that were written about certain characters if you wished. From this I was able to see that there were quite a few similar plot lines favoured by most of the fanfic authors.

3. Mercedes Lackey

Interestingly, I found out that this was the only fanfiction website Lackey has allowed. Fanfiction can only be published on this site, and signing up applications have to be posted to Lackey. The site also consisted of role playing persona's as well as lots of other features.

The fanfiction was interesting, as many authors made up new characters to add along side the original characters, rather than writing new stories about the original characters. The level of writing was high. As all the work posted is edited and looked over by Lackey.

After looking through my favourite author's fanfiction, I then moved on to tv series.

4. House

I liked this website as it was well maintained with an extensive search feature to track down a specific story line or character.

I found the fanfic authors varied greatly here. Some wrote stories that read more like a screen play, while others were a full blown short story, including giving background information about the characters and their surroundings. The writing standard is high with these stories. And except for the character's names and the setting, they could almost be original stories.

5. Dark Angel

For this tv series there were a lot of fanfiction sites to choose from. I believe this is because the show only ran for two seasons and left lots of things unsaid and unfinished.

I liked this site, as the main fanfiction author, Valjean, has written his stories from the perspective of Alec, rather than the main character Max. After reading a few of his stories I had to force myself to stop. The plot flowed well, and the portrayal of Alec, I believed was very real and truthful to the original tv series.

Valjean also had links to several other websites that he writes fanfiction for, mostly other tv programs. I believe this is a common feature of fanfiction writers to write fanfiction for more than one topic/genre.

5. Charmed

This website contained fanfiction, among other things on the popular tv series, Charmed. This was another tv series were I was able to find several fanfiction websites for. I liked this website the best as it was easy to use, had photos and colours which made it more interesting to use, and the quality of the stories was interesting. It may not have had as large a range of stories as other websites, but the stories were intriguing and had different plot lines to other fanfiction stories. The standard of writing varied, and so I found some stories more enjoyable than others.  

6. Roswell

This was another fan website which was interesting to look at and contained additional features, like a time line of events.

The fan fiction in this web site is solely written by the Roswell Oracle. They have written extensively, with several different plot lines, with multiple chapters. The stories are a quick read, with more attention to dialogue than to description. Despite this the stories are interesting as they continue on were the tv show left off. The author also and focused on more than one character, and switched point of view adequately. This showed depth and understanding of the characters, as well as showing what the author thought the characters  motivation was.

7. Bones

I found this site interesting as the authors and plot lines varied greatly. It was fun to read through different points of views as well as seeing what other people interpreted the character's motivation as. 
I found one story involving Lance Sweets. The story was about him but contained nothing related to the rest of the characters on the Bones tv series. But bearing in mind, the story has only just started.  Most of the stories on the website were short, or had only just been started.
The writing standard for the stories I read was high, with developed characters, good plot lines and a flowing writing style.

I then decided to have a look at some fanficion about movies.

8. 13 Ghosts.

I enjoyed this fanfiction, as the setting was exactly the same as in the movie, although the character and plot line was different. Having the setting the same as the movie made it easier to place the characters and made it easier to picture what the glass house looked like, as the author didn't spend a lot of time on description.  I believe the author could have done a lot more with the story, more description, and there were holes in the plot line and sequence of events. As well as developing the characters more. Overall though, it was an interesting piece and I was encouraged to read more than just the first chapter.

9. Inglourious Bastards

This website contained links to several different fanfic authors. The actual website is more of a fan site where more than just story links get posted but I found that added to the stories to have the odd picture and comment from the other authors. 
Some of the stories I read were a little confusing as they depended on the reader remembering who each character was, with the unusual German names. The author's writing was good though, and I still found the stories interesting even if I couldn't picture the characters very clearly. 
The writing standard was high. With the author's having written frequently and probably having written other fanfiction as well.

10. Princess Dairies

I found the stories written here interesting, as they were written from the grandmother, the Queen of Genovia. It was a change to read the story from her point of view with the hard decisions she had to make. They were short pieces but added depth to the grandmother's character that was missing in the movies. It was interesting to see how things would have played out if her romance with the body guard and started and continued earlier. 
The fanfiction author also changed some of the events that happened but this didn't detract from the stories. The writing standard was average, with the stories being a bit cliche to the romance genre.