I'm a now a fan-fiction hero author to 11-year olds world-wide.
You may wonder how this situation occurred. You may wonder, perhaps, I suffer from delusions of grandeur. That may be the case. You may not care I'm a hero. You may not even care how I became a hero.
However, you will, by reading this BLOG entry, find further details, as specified by myself (and no one else) on this situation.
Ben (my 12-year old son) began watching a Japanese t.v. anime series (in Japanese but subtitled in English) a few weeks back. He got me watching it, and to my chagrin, I must admit, I've gotten hooked.
The anime series gives us a common topic to talk about, among other things. Ben also loves to read this thing called Fan Fiction on http://www.fanfiction.net. People all over the world who can read and write in English have written fiction stories based on various fictional characters in literature, the movies, t.v. series, etc.
There are hundreds of thousands of fan fiction stories up on this web site. The Harry Potter fan fiction alone is well over 100,000 stories. Ben was reading a story and complained that the girl and guy in the story were getting together too easily and in too predicatable a fashion.
Having already said I would like to write some Fan Fiction with my son, I agreed to write a less-predicatble story. I did. I published it, and I've been getting very good reviews from 11-year olds all over the world (well, the Phillipines for one place, perhaps Japan, and the USA for sure).
I'm a hero to 11-year olds everywhere.
If you want to read my reviews, you can view them here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/r/2383240/0/1/
The story is linked from that, but I seriously doubt many of you would be interested in reading it -- unless you're a pre-teen Naruto fan.
