Fellow geeks: Ever write fan-fiction?

[DerekG]

I just took my first and assuredly only foray, and would like to hear some confessions.

[JTG of the PRB]

1. I wrote a couple fan-fic Star Trek stories back in high school.

They are safely under lock and key and have never been seen by any eyes but my own. :evilgrin:

[texanwitch]

2. No, but I know people who do.

I have read a lot of it.

Some of it was good, some bad.

[jpgray]

3. Just about all fan fiction is bad.

Like Christian rock, anything that needs a marketing crutch of some kind to get noticed is probably not so good. Now that I think about it, at least the Star Wars fan fiction has a good chance of being better than its source material. :P

[MrSlayer]

4. I used to write fan fiction on my typewriter back in the day.

I didn't like the way a certain book ended and changed it to something more palatable. Hilarious.

[XemaSab]

5. And then Jesus died and all the disciples were totally bummed but they eventually got over it.

The End. :P

[DerekG]

6. That was precisely my intention!

My friend and I argued over which Star Wars film was the worst: she picked Attack of the Clones, I went with Return of the Jedi (the thing has rankled me for a decade). We made a bet and to work I went, penning an Episode VI screenplay.

Hilarious is definitely the appropriate word.

[QMPMom]

7. Yes. I was pretty good at it. Some people stole my stories and I got out of it 4 years ago.