Category Archives: Featured

Feature stories, such as promotional articles that highlight new/old stories, activity on the groups, and any other features of interest.

Brand New Look for the Five Earths Project!

After months of testing out various possible themes for the Five Earths Project website, we’ve finally settled on one that really suits us best. We’d also like to announce that we’ll be adding a few new categories, which we hope will appeal to all you young folks out there: Twilight Fan Fiction Quick question: Team . . .

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How to Write Comics and Graphic Novels by Dennis O’Neil

Over at Bleeding Cool, veteran comic-book writer and editor Dennis O’Neil — best known for his work on Batman and an acclaimed run in Green Lantern/Green Arrow — has over the last few weeks been sharing his tips on writing comics and graphic novels. Whether or not you want to ever write comics, fanfic, or . . .

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What would be your 10 new states in the DC Universe?

Sure, the DC Universe is rife with fictional cities, such as Metropolis, Gotham City, Opal City, Gateway City, Star City, Central City, Keystone City, Smallville, and a quantity of others, each home to its own super-hero or heroes. But what if some of the DCU’s fictional cities also resided in fictional states? That’s the question . . .

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10 Time Management Tips for Writers – The Urban Muse

Having trouble finding the time to write your fan fiction story (or anything else, for that matter)? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. All of us here at the Five Earths Project have let months and even years go by between stories, and sometimes even between chapters. You might love to write as we do, but . . .

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Fan Fiction – New Yorker (blog)

If you thought that fan fiction was only for fans of Twilight, Harry Potter, or X-Men comics (see FanFiction.net or other places on the web), you thought wrong. In the March issue of EPSN The Magazine, sports trivia geeks have shown their knowledge of baseball, football, and hockey trivia and history to write sports fiction . . .

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March at the 5 Earths Project

Time marches on, and we’re already a few days into March. Our featured image for this month is a Neal Adams piece from the 1976 Super DC Calendar featuring Green Lantern and Green Arrow, the stars of the unusual team-up series from the 1970s. We’re working hard here at the Five Earths Project to bring . . .

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February’s featured image

It’s nearly a week since Valentine’s Day, but it’s never too late to celebrate love at the Five Earths Project. Our featured image this month is the Earth-2 Hawkman and Hawkgirl — the original Hawks whose origins are steeped in ancient Egypt. This image is modified from a panel in the classic History of the . . .

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January’s featured image

This month’s featured image, which depicts Superman flying over the earth, comes from CapedWonder.com.

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More updates

We now have several social media buttons to share articles and stories online. Share away! I’d like the Five Earths Project to show up on the first page every time someone Googles “dc comics fan fiction“, so share links as often as you’d like, whenever and wherever. We also have a translate link (powered by . . .

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A few updates

Just a short note to let everyone know of a few updates, especially those of you who subscribe through the RSS feed: We now have a chat room that’s fully functional and integrated into the site, rather than an extension of a chat room site. The titles pages (ie. “Earth-2 Titles”) have been collapsed into . . .

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Story summaries now available

Some of you may have noticed that things have slowed down a bit here at the Five Earths Project. That’s normal, since there are only so many new stories that can be archived. But in fact, I’ve been working on bringing over the largest story archive in the Project to this website: the Earth-1 After . . .

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Who is “the Chosen”?

In the popular cult TV hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Buffy Summers, a teenage girl chosen in her generation to be the Slayer. In this series created by Joss Whedon, Buffy kills countless vampires and other monsters with her trusty wooden stake and with the help of her “Scooby Gang.” But . . .

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Please bear with us

We’re still trying to iron out a few bugs as we try out different themes to search for the best one to display our stories. Expect to see this site change its look a few more times before we settle on something. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. For anyone only wanting to read . . .

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“X” Marks the Spot

In Roman numerals, the number 10 is represented by the letter X; it seems only appropriate, then, that 2010 is shaping up to be the year of Earth-X. Over at Yahoo Groups on both the 5earthwriters group and the EarthXtheFightContinues group, discussions abound concerning the past, present, and future of this world. Over the past . . .

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Amethyst returns in “Out of the Shadows”

Over the last ten years, the Five Earths Project has taken on a multitude of DC Comics characters, such as the JSA, the JLA, Superman, and Batman, as well as several original characters or those based on older characters. But as longtime prolific fanfic writer Libbylawrence proves, there are classic comic-book characters that have still . . .

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