This Word Soap, As The World Keeps Turning, is my personal attempt to keep Oakdale alive. Obviously all ATWT characters don’t belong to me. If anything, I belong to them. They came knocking on my inspiration. All I’m doing is giving them the future they deserve. This writing is a labour of love. In every sense of the word.
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couch bound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
—Lev Grossman, TIME, July 18, 2011 (You tell them, Mr. Grossman!)
