Hot, Sweaty Musicians--And the Women Who Write Dirty Stories About Them
Ever imagined what life might be like for a rock star? These female music fans take their imaginations a bit farther.
(PRWEB) June 12, 2006 -- “Way back in the beginning of time I wrote about The Beatles. Called them ‘my stories’. Whenever I wanted a ‘bad’ guy, I added Mick Jagger to the mix,” says Joolz from Eastern PA, who today writes stories featuring the guys in Metallica.
What she does is called ‘band fiction’, and its roots go back to the sixties when female Beatles fans shared stories they’d written about their idols with their friends. The popularity and accessibility of the Internet, however, has brought band fiction out into the open.
“The genre has gotten more and more mainstream. Before, the idea of [real person fiction] was completely derided and taboo,” says a UK woman who started two online band fiction communities, the first in 1998.
Band fiction is penned--and read--mostly by women. Fans range in age from 13 to eligible for AARP membership. They also represent a range of sexual orientations, education levels, marital statuses, religions, career choices and locations. The common denominator is that they enjoy reading and, often, writing stories based upon the public personas of their favorite musicians.
The appeal of band fiction is that “it’s written by fans,” explains Juliana, a 23-year-old writer from Wisconsin, “not objective third parties who are out for an analytical angle or whatnot.”
Moose, in the UK, adds, “I read bandfic because I already have some sort of fangirlish attachment to the people in whichever band, and I love seeing how other people interpret different facets of their relationships.”
Rockfic Press (http://www.rockficpress.com) now offers band fiction in trade paperback format, giving fans the chance to enjoy their favorite band fiction the same way they’d enjoy any other good book. One title, ROAD HAZARDS, collects stories starring twenty-one different bands--from Aerosmith to My Chemical Romance--that speculate (often quite imaginatively) about life on the road. Another is dedicated entirely to Metallica’s drummer.
If you think you might have some band fiction stories bursting to be told, college student and Bon Jovi band fiction author Hector_Rashbaum wants you to know that “You don’t have to write sex scenes and you don’t have to write slash. Write what you like, write what you’re comfortable with.” Mad Andy, a 35-year-old UK author, agrees, and adds, “Nobody’s first fic is perfect, nobody’s!” If you’re nervous about the quality of your story, take another author’s advice: “Find someone to proof-read your work, or submit it to a writers group for constructive criticism. It really is the best way to learn.”
But be careful--you may get hooked. As Mad Andy points out, “I think a lot of people who discover band fic stay with it.”
Just ask Joolz, whose stories appear in both ROAD HAZARDS and DANISH as well as in an upcoming "seduction of a straight man" anthology of band fiction called GET BENT.
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