![]() How is writing the screenplay for Eleanor & Park ? They’re taking it away from the path that I’ve charted. ![]() Definitely there is fanfiction that takes my characters in a direction that I wouldn’t intend for them - almost all fanfiction. I’ve read fantasy my whole life, so when I first sat down to write a fantasy novel, I was responding to all of these concepts of what it meant to be the chosen one, what it meant to have the gift and responsibility of magic. What you write is often a reaction or a response to the things you’ve read. I don’t think ideas are as clean and separate as we think they are. I felt like that seed had been planted pretty far away from the source material. If no one told you this is Twilight fanfiction, in my opinion, you would never know that those characters are Bella and Edward. You obviously aren’t freaked out about fanfiction the way some authors are, but does something like Fifty Shades of Grey make you nervous - that someone could go in a direction you maybe wouldn’t approve of, one that could eclipse your own work? And in its way, Fifty Shades of Grey introduced a lot of people to the concept of fanfiction, even if they got the wrong idea. Even if you weren’t writing fanfiction yourself, you know it’s there, you’re just much more fluent in the internet. The Harry Potter generation is the generation where fanfiction really became a big deal. That will continue because the Harry Potter generation is growing up. When I wrote Fangirl I had to explain what fanfiction was to a lot of people, and I don’t have to explain that much. It’s such a huge and a popular thing that I don’t think it was going to stay counter-culture and quiet. Has the public perception of fandom and fanfiction changed since Fangirl came out? When it breaks down is when you break your own rules. It’s magic! There’s no rational explanation to magic! I just tried to be consistent. I try not to get too bogged down about how it works. I get really confused if I talk specifically about the magic in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. I don’t really know how the Force works, and when George Lucas tried to explain it to me, that was very disappointing. I would think, what sort of magical things are community property, that every fantasy story has? And what is too much like that book I read in sixth grade? I would get stuck and have to remind myself that I don’t really know how the magic works in my favorite fantasy stories. I’d imagine that building out a magical world where anything goes would be incredibly fun but also overwhelming.Īnything goes, but you also don’t want your world and your magic to be just like someone else’s. You get some of him, but there’s so much to fill in. You can do a lot with Draco Malfoy because there’s not much Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter books. Sometimes the characters that people love most in fandom are characters like Draco Malfoy. The characters of Simon Snow play a small part in Fangirl, but from the fanart and fanfiction created about them, they’re just as beloved as your other characters.įor people in fandom, that’s actually ideal. When I started writing my own Simon Snow, it was more what I would do with this character. When I was writing Cath, it was more of what a talented teenage girl writing romantic fantasy would do. ![]() Leslie, I envisioned this feeling of British children’s literature and had a very traditional middle-grade voice. The Simon Snow I was writing in Fangirl was a different Simon Snow. They didn’t really make it into the book. Nobody said, “This fantasy part sucks!” So I thought, “Maybe I could do this.” My brain was ready to go there.ĭid Carry On emerge from the leftover Simon Snow segments that went unused in Fangirl ? When I wrote Fangirl, writing the Simon Snow parts were my favorite parts, and they came really easily. Maybe because I worked at a newspaper for so long, I didn’t feel I could let go like that. I’ve always read so much fantasy and science fiction, but before Fangirl I didn’t think I could write fantasy. What’s it like writing your first fantasy novel? ![]() Some people have said, “Oh, you’re writing fanfiction for your own book!” I don’t think it’s fanfiction, I think it’s more like canon! Because even though Simon Snow is fictional inside of Fangirl, I still had to make him up. ![]() Rainbow Rowell: I think it’s just straight-up fiction. TIME: So what do you call a book like this? ![]()
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