Fan fiction and You.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Hmm...therapeutic...that's an interesting take on things, Mervi, and not a reason for fan fic that I would ever have thought of without input from someone else. Thanks for sharing that!

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Having been working for some time on my own novel, using key issues that I have directly taken from my own childhood, I don't believe an awful experience in life, no matter how terrible, gives anyone permission to directly use or follow on from a story or characters that have already been created. Certainly, there are many similar plots and characters, even in 'literature', that are based on true life or even pre-existing storylines or characters eg biblical or religious themes, historical people or locations etc, but...that's different!

Ah, another aspiring writer. Be sure to let us know of any progress, I'll be sure to read it if you manage to get it published. (Btw, this is not meant as a slight towards your writing abilities - getting published is very hard. Even a book like Harry Potter has been rejected multiple times.)

As for the therapy theory... this might be true in some cases, but scratch "apparently" - I am 99% positive that the story is meant to be arousing.