Find Thee a Web Series: Three Reasons Why Short-Form Video Content is a Truly Unique Goldmine for Fanfic Authors
Sometimes, the less your base content gives you, the better.
I’ve been writing fanfiction for a hot minute. Definitely not as long as some, but I’ve got a solid six years and 350k+ words under my belt, and writing fanfic for web series fandoms is my bread and butter, my home base. Web series fanfiction is where I learned to be a writer.
Short-form web series have gained popularity over the last seven years or so, but I believe that they’re still the hidden gem of the internet. I stumbled upon Carmilla: The Series in early 2015, and for me, the rest is history.
Affectionately known as ‘The Little Web Series That Could,’ Carmilla is a critically acclaimed modern, LBGTQIA+ positive, and feminist retelling of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire novella, Carmilla. The unique thing about many web series like Carmilla is that its short-form content. Carmilla, for example, usually had an episode length of two to ten minutes, with their longest episode clocking in at around sixteen minutes.
Limited time means easily recognizable characters, limited perspectives, and a whole lot of telling rather than showing, which is an absolute treasure trove for…
