"Dream big. Dream looming. Dream a force that is ...
The beta-reader is a person who voluntarily proofreads fanfics before the original author posts it (sometimes after posting if the author requests it). This is supposed to improve the quality of fanfics. There are many kinds of beta, the most common of which is the technical beta who takes care of ...
A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length, not necessarily including the title. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
In fan fiction, a Mary Sue is an idealized character, often but not necessarily an author insert. The "Mary Sue" is judged as a poorly developed character, too perfect and lacking in realism to be interesting.
Real person fiction (RPF) is a type of fan fiction featuring celebrities or other real people. In the past, terms such as actorfic were used to distinguish such stories from those based on fictional characters from movies or television series.
A songfic, also known as a song fic or a song-fic, is a work of fiction interspersed with the lyrics of a relevant song. The term is a portmanteau of "song" and "fiction"; as such, one might also see the genre referred to as "songfiction". Songfics are a genre of ...
Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction that focuses on interpersonal attraction and sexual relationships between fictional characters of the same sex. While the term was originally restricted to stories in which male media characters were involved in an explicit sexual relationship as a primary ...
Femslash (also known as "f/f slash", "femmeslash", "altfic" and "saffic")[1] is a subgenre of slash fan fiction which focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female fictional characters.
Shipping, derived from the word relationship, friendship or worship, is the belief of (or desire for) two people, often fictional, to be in a romantic relationship. It is considered a general term for fans' emotional involvement with the ongoing development of romance in a work of fiction. ...
