Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

Here’s a collection of quotes that I noted while finishing up the last chapter and my thoughts on each of them: “So fan fiction is a genre i...

I really struggled with chapter 9. Whereas while reading most of the other sections I found myself nodding vigorously, during this one I sh...

Interesting discussion on micro stories—Drabbles (100-worders) and others—with the notion that the fanfic genre, with its shared canon, lend...

I resonated with Belatrix Carter, quoted at length by Pugh in ch7, when she was taking about her desire to write being thwarted by her seemi...

Chapter 7 is so rich with interesting tidbits as well as ahas that I expect to need a few blog entries to do it justice. Just thumbing thro...

First off, I love this chapter title, and apparently it’s fanfic jargon to refer to drawing on a fandom (or a mythology or some other canon)...

Ch 5 was interesting in that I knew nothing about slash before I read it—now I have a clinical understanding. I had assumed, naively, that s...

Ch 4 is all about characters. I loved how Pugh compared writing within a fandom to ancient authors writing within the canon of mythology, “...

Right off the bat, Pugh presents what is to me a novel idea—i.e., there’s more fanfic about P&P than any of the other Austen novels beca...

More on Chapter 2, “The Knowledge,” which is basically dealing with the canon—Pugh compares the Republic of Pemberley’s now archive-only Bit...

About 18 months ago, I started on a quest to read/watch all of Shakespeare's plays, roughly in order. I am nearing the end. I have only ...

The subtitle to The Democratic Genre is "Fan fiction in a literary context," and so far it's a fascinating look at the fanfic ...