Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World

Most fan fiction engages with mass-media texts, such as the Harry Potter books and films (Warner Bros., 2001-2011) or the television program Supernatural (CW, 2005- ).4 Stories are often (but not always) published on a chapter-by-chapter basis, like serial narratives in nineteenth-century magazines, and they can involve similar kinds of opportunities for readers to participate in the ongoing development of the narrative. "6 The development of social media sites such as LiveJournal, YouTube, and Tumblr has only increased the possibilities for narrative experimentation and reader access.\n Fic is also one of a number of recent scholarly publications that together easily form the basis of an introductory class on fan fiction studies that would previously have been challenging to facilitate.10 There is only one chapter of Fic that non-fic readers will find difficult, and it is, unfortunately, one of two introductory chapters that follow writer Lev Grossman's exceptionally lucid foreword.