OK, I Actually Wrote Fan Fiction

Saturdays on my writing Facebook and Twitter pages are #SciFiFantasySaturday. I usually post cool stuff I’ve read about the science fiction and fantasy genres. Growing up, they were among my favorite things to read or watch on television or the cinema. So, I figured I might post this tonight, even though I’m posting late again like the social media people advise me not to do.

As I mentioned previously, the final season of Game Of Thrones did not leave me happy. As a result of that, I found myself looking over several different fan fiction reinterpretations of that final season.

What I was impressed with was the volume of people doing this. When I ran across more than 4,000 examples of a particular type of stories, that blew my mind. I always read the cliches about fan fiction being the breeding ground of bad writing. But in a world where I keep hearing that writers and the written word are eventually going to die out, I keep seeing example after example of people who love to write and want to blend their love of why they’ve read and watched into their writing. Why shouldn’t that be encouraged as long as people acknowledge what they are doing and don’t try to profit from other people’s copyrights?

So, I finished Project S, my previously-named epilogue to the Game of Thrones TV series. I called it The Reunion Of The Pack. It takes place three years after the events of the series finale. It shows what happens when Arya Stark returns to Westeros after sailing around the world and learns how her family and friends have adjusted to the new order of things.

After posting on FanFiction.Net and Archive Of Our Own (AO3), I decided to let you know about it here. As on Reddit, my username on both FF and AO3 is librarysquatter.

It’s here that I will make a standard announcement that this work is absolutely inspired by the writing of George R.R. Martin and the writers of the TV series. I have no interest in monetizing this story in any way. I did it solely to entertain myself and hopefully anyone who reads it.

This process has inspired me to do a few different things. I now feel compelled to write a total redo of Season 8. This is not going to be a short-term or even a high priority project for me, but I am going to do it. I’ll likely post it on FF and AO3, but my question will be about format and timing. I definitely do not want to take away from my other projects like my original fantasy project, known as Project F.

But, yeah, this is a thing. Go ahead and read it if you’d like.

The Reunion Of The Pack (AO3)