I'm glad that Lexi pointed out that the fan fiction websites are non-threatening. I think this is an important factor people need to know about these websites. The fact that they are non-threatening brings many more possibilities to the site. This means that the fan fiction website is not a place where children can be coerced into meeting creepy older men who pretend to be twelve year old friends. This also means that children can have an outlet for writing that parents will approve. Parents will not have a reason to tell their children that the site is dangerous if it protects the identity of the child, and after reading CC5 it seems like these websites don't require a real name (I also like this part because then kids- or adults- can create a make-believe name).
I was not aware of the fan fiction realm of the web until reading this book, but I have to say that I think it is a great idea. I think that if there was an opportunity like this when I was younger and had more free time (and I realized it) I would have participated. It is hard to believe that the corporations would want to limit the creativity of children, if they really understood fan fiction. It seems so obvious to me to let it go as long as no profits are involved. I'm not sure if the corporations saw their characters being used and automatically went to the lawyers about copyright infringement or actually took the time to understand the process and still persecuted kids for being creative. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt, eh?
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here's an interesting site, an "online storytelling community for children:
http://www.storybookonline.net/Default.aspx
someone chooses a title, writes an initial paragraph, and then the next person adds on to it.
not a bad idea.
[strange that, though it's not a harry potter fansite, there are still many fanfics on here.]
That's such a cute idea. That reminds me of a game I played when I was younger. My friends and I would sit in a cirlce and someone would start a story. Then when the next person in the story was ready to begin their part they would call next and begin. It went on until the last girl in the circle ended the story. So I guess this is similar to the website you found, expecially consideringthe idea that we didn't have access to the Internet yet at around age 5.
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