ICYMI - How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took Over the Internet
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The realm of fan fiction is a wild, magical place to be, especially if that fan fiction is set at Hogwarts. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison talk about All the Young Dudes, an extensive Harry Potter fan fiction that has inspired a fandom all its own, and just how that fandom came to be. But first, they chat about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and spend time listening to the first line of some listeners’ NaNoWriMo novels.
Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis, Daniel Schroeder, and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know you're serious black and I say, I'm Gary Oldman, I saw it. I saw it. |
| 0:07.9 | This you? This you? This you? This you? This you? This you? This you? |
| 0:13.3 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see YMIMI. In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.2 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:21.4 | Madison, it's time we finally settle this. What are we settling exactly? How the fuck do you |
| 0:26.6 | pronounce the nickname for National Novel Writing Month? Is it Naino Rimo? Nino Rimo? |
| 0:33.9 | Rachel, this isn't that hard. You say that, and yet I can never remember which one of us goes first at the top of each episode, despite the fact it never changes from week to week. |
| 0:42.7 | National Novel Writing Month. |
| 0:45.6 | Nano Rhymo. |
| 0:47.6 | Okay, well, however it's pronounced, it's right now. |
| 0:59.6 | National Noveling Writing Month has, a very long history on the internet. I think it was started in 1999. And the goal is basically to write 50,000 words of a new novel in a month. I didn't |
| 1:08.6 | realize the new part. Like you have to start from scratch. You can't just tinker away at like a work in month. I didn't realize the new part. Like, you have to start from scratch. You can't just |
| 1:12.4 | tinker away at like a work in progress. I will show my ass here and admit that I failed this year |
| 1:18.2 | on day three. If you break down 50,000 words in a month, you basically are writing 1,700 |
| 1:24.3 | words a day. Oh, my God. |
| 1:32.1 | Well, according to the website, you go in boys and you come out men. |
| 1:42.0 | Participants enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents, and they leave novelist, except for Madison. |
| 1:46.0 | I entered as a podcast host. I'm leaving just the same, I hope. |
| 1:49.8 | Actually, next week we'll have a new host. |
| 1:55.4 | In celebration of National Novel Writing Month, we've asked you all to send us the first line of your novel, and as usual, the I see why am I guys delivered. |
| 2:01.0 | First up, we have Michelle. |
| 2:03.7 | Hi, I-C-Y-M-I. |
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