What are the fanfictions?

Fans pay a tribute to their idols

Fanfiction is the term used, generally, to indicate works written by fans that are inspired by original and famous stories and characters. This fact itself is not new, just think of some stories about Sherlock Holmes or Star Trek wrote in the past. With Internet, however, the spread of fanfiction has exploded: Internet is full of websites, portals and blogs that contain this type of works, and now people are inspired by movies, manga, anime, video games and TV series.

What drives a fan to move from passive spectator to an author? The passion for history and characters, at first and, maybe, the love for writing. Many fans want to give his own view of history, creating new situations, before or after the official events, but always inserted into the original storyline. In other cases, the fans also enjoy creating absurd situations parodying the story. Everybody pays homage to his idols proving that history has left its mark.

It's also a great way to "kill" the time between a season to another, without losing the excitement that the series gives to viewers: many authors, indeed, are particularly good at respecting the feature of the characters and the atmosphere of series and, at the same time, they are good to build exciting and fun situations.

Very common in the web are the fanfics about Harry Potter, Twilight, Naruto and Inuyasha. Recently there are many fanfics about TV series: Castle, The Mentalist, Supernatural, Dr. House, CSI, Bones, Glee, and many others.

One of the richest sites by type and number of stories is fanfiction.net: only the section TV Show has 1343 categories! Here you can read fanfics in English (mostly), but also French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese.

An example of a fanfiction site "Made in Italy" is rather efpfanfic.net. A great site where the Italian writers can give vent to their passion and where there is some examples of rare skill.

Are you curious? Good reading, then!