Once upon a time, I read and wrote fanfiction. I was fourteen years old at the time, I found the school paper boring, and I was annoyed that Mulder and Scully from the X-Files didn’t get together. Oh those were the days.
No, I won’t be posting any of my old fanfics. That was a very different me and I’d like it to remain in the cache hell of the internet.
But while many can argue fanfic as being lazy writing, there are the few and proud that I personally think improved on the series and original canon, or just continues to feed that giddy, little shallow side of me between day job duties.
Off the top of my head, here’s one fanfic that got it right: (contains mature content!)
X-Files: “E.L.S.” by Dawson E. Rambo
Part of the 30-Day writing meme. Next is ‘Day 16: A song that makes you cry (or nearly)’.