The rise of fan fiction — specifically of the erotic variety — has prompted fan fiction megasite Wattpad to release a free iOS app, called After Dark, to collate its thousands of romance stories.

The story was posted on Wattpad, one of the most popular fan fiction and webnovel websites where creators can self-publish their work. Infamously, the characters' names had to be changed before ...

“I wanted to create my own story, and my original characters in a world I was very invested in,” says Ananya, who went to write a Game of Thrones fan-fiction on Wattpad that made her semi ...

Those days were long gone by the time Wattpad stormed onto the scene ... you were binging until dawn was a well-crafted piece of fiction or a dumpster fire of spelling errors and questionable ...

As a self-publishing platform, Wattpad is known for hosting fan fiction and romance, and its authors and readers both skew heavily female. Those are genres and audiences that have been ...

Sites like Wattpad, fanfiction.net and AO3 have served as forums for millions of fans to discuss and write about their favorite characters. Often, fan fiction stories can seem peculiar when ...

Belligerent Sexual Tension. Alternate Universe. Kink Negotiation. Omegaverse. When people search for fan fiction on site Archive of Our Own — known among its legions of fans as AO3 — there’s ...

Fan fiction is essentially original writing about existing fictional characters or, sometimes, real people like celebrities. The original medium fan fiction is based on can vary from books ...

Back in 2009, the rise of the internet ensured that fan fiction was more accessible than ever before. Sites like AO3 and Wattpad were in their infancy, but communities were rapidly being assembled ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues ...