Sherlock and the Curious Case of Fanfiction, a guest post by author Frankie Brown
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People like to call fiction — especially fanfiction — escapism, as if that’s a bad thing. Fiction does let you escape yourself, but that’s wonderful if inside yourself is sometimes a scary place to be. Fiction has always been my therapy.
Nothing is better than getting so lost in a story, whether reading or writing it, that I look up and I’m surprised the world is still there. The time I spend sleuthing around London with Sherlock is like that. The London chill becomes so real I have to pull on a cable knit sweater.
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Plus, I couldn’t stop thinking about Sherlock. Reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes, rewatching episodes of the BBC series, taking three moleskines worth of notes on character development and plot construction — I was completely hooked. Add the fact that I’d just finished reading Rainbow Rowell’s FANGIRL for the fourth or fifth time, and I’m sure you know what happened next.
Fighting their way back home, Cora finds her house ransacked and Coby missing – kidnapped by the military for dangerous medical experiments in the name of finding a cure. Brooks knows exactly where Cora can find her brother, except he says it’s a suicide mission. Cora doesn’t care. But Brooks can’t let her go…
Filed under: Fanfiction, Frankie Brown, Sherlock
About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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Great post. Way to come clean about enjoying and writing fan-fic – the world still has a serious bias about this and my experience w/ it has been so GOOD as well. Thank you!
Excellent article! A lot of people in my circles use fandom as a way to deal with their lives stresses too. I myself use it to come to terms with my survivors guilt and my feelings on subjects ranging from suicide to the afterlife. I'm glad it's provided you with a safe place to create, and that you found the series you're passionate about!
And congratulations again on the novel!