Why Every Aspiring Author Should Start with Fan Fiction | JM Frey Interview | CWN podcast ep 30

"A story comes to life not in the writing, but in the editing.."

🎤Welcome to Create Write Now podcast episode 30🎤

The CWN Podcast is for unpublished writers who want to elevate their craft by learning from published authors, working writers, and writing professionals.

Join Kauffman as he sits down with Author JM Frey as they explore how fan fiction can help writers at every stage of the writing process. Writing fan fiction can help new writers just start, can help all writers with skill building, and even overcome writer's block when feeling stuck!

✨📚 J.M. Frey is an author, voice actor, and lapsed academic. She’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on television to discuss all things geeky. Her debut novel TRIPTYCH was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards and garnered a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly. Since then she’s published THE ACCIDENTAL TURN SERIES, a quadrilogy of meta-fantasy novels, and THE SKYLARK’S SAGA, a steampunk adventure duology. Her queer regency historical fiction novel TIME AND TIDE was named one of the New York Times Best Romances of 2024. Her life’s ambition is to step foot on every continent – only three left! She lives in Toronto where she is surrounded by houseplants, because she is allergic to anything with fur. And Chocolate. But not wine.

🌐 https://jmfrey.net/

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🕒 timecode 🕒
00:00 What is the SECRET to writing great fan fiction?
02:37 Intro
05:00 Author JM Frey
08:50 How would you define fan fiction, and what makes it such a powerful tool for writers?
13:38 You began writing fan fiction at a young age. What drew you to it, and how did those early experiences shape you as a storyteller?
20:00 Favorite Fandoms
24:35 How did your background in fan fiction influence your approach to writing original stories later on?
31:20 You've described fan fiction as an "apprenticeship to the fandom community." How has this apprenticeship contributed to your skills in character development and narrative structure?
37:00 How has engaging with fan communities and receiving feedback influenced your growth as a writer?
43:15 What challenges did you face when moving from writing fan fiction to creating original content, and how did you overcome them?
47:20 How did your experience with fan fiction prepare you for the process of publishing your debut novel, Triptych, and subsequent works?
01:01:10 Live Reading of Time and Tide
01:15:35 Q&A
01:24:15 If tomorrow was your last chapter in the book of life...
01:27:40 Creative Writing on the Morrow