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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'm only teasing ya.  I know, for instance, that a hell of a lot of really good writers started off writing stories set within the Lovecraftian mythos. And I think I might be getting fanfic and slashfic confused here. Is slashfic the one where they have everyone screwing each other? |
Only in the good stuff.
Slash is a subcategory of fanfic. It's often loosely defined as any romantic/sexual-focused stories about same-sex characters. There's a lot of debate about whether it's "really" slash if the characters in the original show aren't straight (Torchwood, Will & Grace), or how explicit a relationship has to be before the fic is considered "slash" as opposed to "friendship." (If House tv episodes were written as-is, they'd probably be considered slash stories. Or pre-slash.)
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I would consider 'literature' to be anything that does not fit easily into any category. Jeffrey Eugenides' Virgin Suicides is literature, Mickey Spillaine's I, the Jury is fiction. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is literature, James Patterson's Along Came a Spider is fiction.
Me? I write pulp.
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I write fanfic. And filk. And slash. Especially weird slash. I'm considering expanding out to non-fannish writing, and having to think about things like "plot" and "how to describe a character that the reader hasn't already invested dozens of hours thinking about."
(Which makes it sound like fanfic is full of shortcuts, gah. It's got a different focus from other literary genres. And while a fanfic writer doesn't have to get the reader *interested* in the characters, she does have to make the reader believe this is a plausible portrayal of them. Authors of original short stories don't have to deal with, "I don't think Joe Q Detective would disarm the bad guy before looking at the girl.")