The Lair of K-Ghidorah

I had this thought (I know, scary, huh?) while I was writing Charlotte & Me about where fan-fiction ends and legitimate literature begins. Wikipedia defines "fan fiction" as "fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator." When you think about it, there's little that separates what you'd find on Fanfiction.net and the many books one can find in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section of Books-A-Million set in the universes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, and the near infinite books one can find set in the various Dungeons & Dragons settings. Hell, at one time, I had all the books featuring Drizzt Do'Urden up until The Thousand Orcs, so this is something I'm extremely familiar with. So what are the differences? There's really only one: legal permission. It's not necessarily quality, since the quality of the books I was talking about earlier tend to vary wildly. Hell, w...

I'm taking a moments' break from writing anything new for the moment so I can regain some focus. It's one of the drawbacks of having three projects going on at once. Instead, I'm going over Daily Life of a Bicycle Cop because, while I was coming up with ideas for Case Docket 9, I felt I should go over what I had already written. I realized how much I rushed through a lot of things, missed punctuation, screwed up grammar... ...I couldn't go through it without cringing. So, while I'm taking a rest from coming up with new things for Charlotte & Me , Bicycle Cop , and PHILIA , I'm going through Bicycle Cop and fixing it. Here are the fixes I'll be implementing: Fixing punctuation and grammar. That much is a given, so no need to dwell on that. I realized that I never went over Satsuke's first day in the new house. After all, he was living in a small one-bedroom apartment, so moving into a huge house with spacious rooms would be a maj...