There is a photograph from when I'm five years old sitting on the ground at the foot of high-rise in Hisingen in Gothenburg where I grew up. I smile into the camera and it got stuck. What the photograph doesn't say is why I'm smiling. The only thing you see is my purple 80's jeans, the black mushroom of hair on my head and my dark brown loafers with small dark brown lashes.

What I have done is that I started writing my own Ghostbusters episodes.
1. My dad doesn't know that I've seen Ghostbusters movies because I have done it in secret.
2. My mom doesn't know that I speak English. Which I can't in the proper sense. I have copied English words from the back of VHS cassettes, picked random words from an English dictionary in my parents' bookcase and picked up a few things when I watched some TV programs.

When I was five years I didn't know what fan fiction was. All I knew was that I would never again get the chance to watch Ghostbusters because my dad thought that I would have nightmares. Which I did. What my father didn't know was that I was having nightmares no matter what. But since I couldn't see the Ghostbusters again I made my own episodes in my head. Began to let the ideas of how it would have been if they had met, for example, Turtles, a gang of ninja turtles that I thought was so very entertaining. I was able to think up stories about how Ghostbusters and Turtles hung out in Kärra, dug lookout posts in our lawn and drew up strategies for how to make traps for the dodgy kids in the yard. So it went on and I gathered a pile of fan fiction. Nobody knew about it. Hence the smile on the picture.

20 years later, I heard the concept for the first time and understood exactly what it was all about. The idea is to write our own continuations of our favorite stories. Sherlock Holmes fans did it, Harry Potter fans are doing it right now and Lord of the Rings fans have done it for years. I understand them completely. How you feel the stories inside you. That it's our character. The stories belong to us. Hence the smiles.

Bonus 1 - A huge database of fan fiction on everything from manga comics to popular books. http://www.fanfiction.net/
Bonus 2 - What is fan fiction? http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfiction
Bonus 3 - Bengt Ohlsson + Gregorius = Fancy fan fiction. http://www.boksidan.net/bok.asp?bokid=2091