A good friend of mine is really into fanfiction. I, being over 40, had of course never heard of it before I met her. Check here for a pretty good definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction
She explained that there's an entire fandom world in cyberspace and that there are many different fandoms, with Harry Potter and Tolkein being among the top for fanfiction authors. Now, what might this have to do with social networking? Well, it turns out that for many budding authors a LiveJournal community is the place to be for socializing with those of like interests, advice with writing, opportunities for critiquing or editing others' fanfic writings, and certainly developing friendships.
From what little I've looked at, it appears that many fanfiction stories are adult themed, but the idea of using virtual communities to assess one's writings and to expose one's works to edits and critiques by many people is a great use of blogs/journals/social networking sites to improve one's writing.
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