*nurses bruised arms* As I have been so pointedly reminded - ;p - I promised you all a copy of my university project, the informative essay on fanfiction. So... here it is.
Let me say, though, that I sincerely hope you won't be disappointed - this was not, after all, written for those of us who already know the fanfic world, but rather as an introduction for those who don't. So there won't be anything here that you lot don't already know.
I was going to do this on LJ or googledocs, but my nice formatting with the pictures would have been lost, so instead I've turned it into a PDF file - two of them, actually. A long version, which includes the appendix, citations and bibliography, and a short version, which does not, and should be nicer to slow connections.
In case you wonder about the thin black box under the subtitle - that was my name, but as I'd like to keep my internet and real life identites separate, I blacked it out. Not that I don't trust you, of course - :) - but I do want to publish a longer version of this as a proper book someday - soon - and so I'm a little protective. Hence, also, why I made it a PDF. Please don't share it around too much; show people, sure (particularly parents and teachers - who complain about us "wasting our time" on the net - hint, hint, Ciri), but don't give other people copies of the file, or link them to the download. Please.
If any of you don't have the reader program for PDF files, email me and I'll send you a Word copy. fanwriter_sedri@hotmail.com
Feel free to tell me if you find anything you disagree with, that is factually wrong, or that you think I misinterpreted. Spelling/punctuation errors too, if you want, but as it's already been handed in, there's not much point there.
And... yeah. Hope you like it - particularly those of you I interviewed. *crosses fingers*
- Sedri