[B]Fanfiction or 'Fanfics' are nothing new and there are thriving communities of writers who spend many dedicated hours writing about their favorite video game characters and publishing this work online. Gaming website [/B][URL=http://www.1up.com][B]1UP [/B][/URL][B]recently published an informative article about this phenomenon with insight from some of the writers who create their very own characters and world's based on video games.[/B]

According to the article, one of the most prominent Fan Fiction communities online is [URL=http://www.fanfiction.net]FanFiction.Net[/URL] which is home to thousands of writers. The website contains all sorts of content including fanfics based on movies, video games and books:

[INDENT] In 1998, a student named Xing Li founded Fanfiction.net, a general archive for fanfiction. Fanfiction.net's all-inclusive format defied the fandom-centric archives that were the norm at the time, and by 2002, over a hundred thousand writers had signed up for a chance to deposit their own works.

[/INDENT] An Australian fanfic writer named 'Blaise' started writing fanfic pieces in 2007 and is particularly fond of writing fanfic based in the Final Fantasy universe:

"[The] [URL=http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=2006397]Final Fantasy XII[/URL] fandom got me committed to the idea of writing fanfiction because it had a massive range of possible works," she says. "There was no one style or genre being written, no one true pairing [also "OTP," a term that refers to a fan's favored romantic pairing in a game, book, or TV series], multiple options to meet any a reader's tastes, and a lot of people really enjoying themselves."

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