Fan fiction

Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and often abbreviated to fanfic or fic) is defined as fiction written by fans that takes place in the world of a film, novel, or other media work. Star Wars fan fiction has been around almost as long as the movies themselves.

Types of fan fiction

 * Angst: A story that focuses on a character's negative emotional state.
 * Alternate Universe (AU): A 'What if' story: a fanfic that divates from or otherwise changes the canon story or premise drastically.
 * Alternate Reality: A fic that transplants characters from the Galaxy Far, Far Away to an alternate setting.
 * Crossover: A story where characters from two (or more) different fandoms interact.
 * Drabble: Very short story, usually 100 words.
 * Gen: A story not focused on romantic interactions between characters.
 * Het: A hetrosexual romance fic.
 * Mush: softcore romantic stuff.
 * One Shot: A complete story told all in one part.
 * PWP: Porn Without Plot - pure smut.
 * Songfic: A story built around a song, or song lyrics. Usually, but not always, romantic in nature.
 * Slash: A story that focuses on a romantic relationship between two characters of the same sex, usually male. The term 'Femmeslash' or 'Femslash' is used to denote a female pairing.
 * Vignette: A fairly short story, usually a character sketch

Fan fiction terminology

 * !: Fanfic terminology regularly uses an exclamation mark to separate the two morphemes of a compound term, especially when the subject can't be taken entirely seriously, as in 'Crack!Ship' or 'Fluffy!Luke''.


 * Archive: A website that offers a collection of fan fiction.
 * Archivist: Person who manages or helps to run an archive.
 * Beta: To have a fic checked for errors before posting/publication by someone who is not the author.
 * Betareader: One who betas.
 * Crack 'ship, Crack!Ship: a term suggesting that authors or 'shippers supporting a particular pairing must be psychologically 'cracked', or perhaps doing drugs such as 'crack' cocaine; also sometimes used with overtones of the Scots/Irish term Craic/Crack.
 * Fanzine: Unauthorized fan-produced magazine; before the internet, fanzines were the only place for most people to find fanfic
 * Fluff: a lighthearted fic
 * Maracen: A story that has Jacen Solo and Mara Jade involved in a romantic relationship.
 * Marakin: A story that has Anakin Solo and Mara Jade involved in a romantic relationship.
 * Mary Sue: a heavily idealized original character, usually based on the author. She or he will posses powers or heritage above and beyond what is considered normal for his or her character class, often deplacing canon characters.  A male Sue is often called "Gary Stu."
 * Original character (OC): a character created created by the author, not from canon
 * Obidala: A story that has Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala involved in a romantic relationship.
 * OTP: One True Pairing
 * Pairing: two characters involved in a romantic relationship
 * Profic: the professionally-written and published stories which constitute the official continuity of the fandom.
 * Plotbunny: a story idea; sometimes 'bunny', or in Star Wars fandom, 'hoojib'.
 * Rec: Short for 'recomendation'
 * Sabewan: A story that has Sabe and Obi-Wan Kenobi involved in a romantic relationship.
 * 'Ship: short for "relationship;" see pairing
 * 'Shipper: someone who is a fan of a particular 'ship or pairing
 * Subtext: Something that can be implied, but is not clearly stated, by canon. Often used as a basis or justification for romantic relations between two characters where none exists in canon.
 * Winterkin: A story that has Anakin Solo and Winter Retrac Celchu involved in a romantic relationship.
 * WIP: Work In Progress; an unfinished story
 * Zine, 'zine: Shorthand for 'fanzine'

More on fan fiction (General)

 * Fan Fiction
 * The Fanfiction Glossary
 * The Fanfic Symposium: History of Fan Fiction

Star Wars fan fiction sites

 * A Larger World - Community for fanfic writers and readers.
 * Stay on Target - fanfic link site
 * TheForce.net's FanFic Archive
 * TheForce.net's Fan Fiction Boards
 * Fanfiction.net: Movies: Star Wars
 * Fanfix.com in the Wayback Machine - now-defunct website was the largest source of Star Wars fanfic on the web for many years
 * Chaos:: Star Wars
 * The Archive at the End of the Universe: Star Wars
 * Skyehawke: Star Wars