From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
I write characters. Some of those characters are women.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.