Why Write Fanfiction?
The vast majority of fanfiction is never published in the traditional sense. The only exceptions are licensed novels, which may not even be considered fanfiction depending on your definition. For legal reasons, fanfiction authors cannot make money from their works. While some creators take a very positive view of fanfiction based on their works, there are others who actively discourage it. So why put your effort into a story that you can never profit from financially? For many authors, fanfiction is a labor of love. These writers love the original property and want to express their affection for the characters and concepts by writing their own stories about them. When a series ends prematurely with unresolved storylines, as Gargoyles did before the comic book came into being, fans will often step in and write their versions of what happened next. Some fans write to deal with something they don’t like about an otherwise beloved series – the death of a character or the romantic pairing o
