Funny story. Robin McKinley once wrote an entire book like that. Her novel was The Blue Sword, and it was in response to the horror that is The Sheik by Edith Hull (trigger warnings for rape, stockholm syndrome, and virulent racism). McKinley stated that it took her about 6 months to draft The Blue Sword, which was at that point the fastest she had ever written a novel.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that fury can’t sustain you through a giant artistic fuck you.

I have heard that “Lord of the Flies” was written in response to a book with some English public school boys getting stranded and having just a jolly very civilized time. I feel much better about that book knowing it’s supposed to be not a indictment of human nature but a commentary on English public school boys.

That book was The Coral Island, FWIW. It’s basically about rich English boys getting stranded on an island and having a jolly good time while fending off cannibalism and rape from “savages”. William Golding read the book repeatedly as a boy, but disagreed with it as an adult, and apparently stated that the Lord of the Flies grew out of the “rotted compost” of his memories of the text.

The other things The Coral Island inspired were Peter Pan and Treasure Island, which just goes to show sometimes the fanfic outlives the original.

The Cat in the Hat was written because the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin challenged Dr. Seuss to come up with a story children would actually want to read using some of the same basic words used in Fun with Dick and Jane.

The His Dark Materials trilogy was written as a Take That to the Chronicles of Narnia.

I think one of my first slash fics was written because I’d read something so incredibly ooc that I, at 16, felt like I could write a better story.

17 years later, I’m still going. :D