On Writing
I've decided there are only two categories of fiction in the universe.
Original Character Fic and Established Character Fic (hereafter OCF and ECF).
OCF is self-explanatory. ECF embraces all characters the author didn't create from scratch, including characters from myth, legend and fairy tales. It doesn't matter to me if the writer's "take" on the being is unique or not. It's still an ECF.
Having only these two categories neatly pigeonholes all fiction for me. This system melds both "profic" and "fanfic" because I discard the idea that a published work has any intellectual high-ground over an unpublished work. As a published author of many things, some crappy, some good, I can make that declaration.)