I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I see the Sydney Morning Herald is featuring Fanfiction in one of today's on-line articles.
I'm not sure if I'm eager to read it, or frightened, knowing that the overwhelming number of half-wits in fandom have buried the decent fanfiction under a tidal wave of crap that no newspaper journalist would have had the time to wade through.
I have a vague feeling there's something grammatically wrong with that sentence. Checking.... Half-wits, tidal wave of crap, those look okay.
Well, I'm sure someone will tell me. In the meantime, I'm off to go read.
Update
Well, we're all in trouble now. The article is actually All About Fanfiction.Net and it leads with a (clearly underage) slash story feature Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy.
And the writing quality of the excerpt? Kill. Me. Now.
(P.S. As soon as I hear from the people who host my webpages, I'll fix the missing graphics thing.)