just how kosher is fanfic?
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veronica_richContinuing the "literary" discussion series from earlier this week. *SNORT*
OK, SRS BZNS TIEMS. Seriously. If you are a writer ... how would you feel about fanfic** if you were an original author/creator of something being ficced? If you're in that position or have been, how DO you feel about it? Would your opinion be affected by if you knew the fans doing the writing ("knew" them online, that is) and if you liked them personally or not? Would you be flattered or offended by particular storylines or pairings involving your characters? Or would you have a blanket feeling - good or bad - about the phenomenon as a whole? Would you interact with your fans as "one of" them (as it's rumored Rowling does - I have no clue if it's true), or would you holler and protest like Anne Rice? Would you see it as plagiarism or something else?
A few weeks ago, I was on a panel with three published authors of erotica at a small convention - the title was something like "romance, erotica, and porn." At least one of the 2 female authors started out in fanfic. The male author was the only one to say he thought fanfic has helped drive the market for original erotica and porn written for and purchased by women in recent years. Both women were courteous and not dismissive of me as the token fanficcer, but I got the feeling that if I hadn't been on the panel (not me personally, but me as a fanfic writer), there are things either or both might have said that they wouldn't outright say in front of me. One did say she regarded fanfic as basically something you do until you mature enough to write original fiction (which I did counter with polite disagreement, since I know authors who also dabble in fanfic on the side).
**By "fanfic" I'm referring only to FPF, not RPF. RPF doesn't really apply in this case, anyway.
OK, SRS BZNS TIEMS. Seriously. If you are a writer ... how would you feel about fanfic** if you were an original author/creator of something being ficced? If you're in that position or have been, how DO you feel about it? Would your opinion be affected by if you knew the fans doing the writing ("knew" them online, that is) and if you liked them personally or not? Would you be flattered or offended by particular storylines or pairings involving your characters? Or would you have a blanket feeling - good or bad - about the phenomenon as a whole? Would you interact with your fans as "one of" them (as it's rumored Rowling does - I have no clue if it's true), or would you holler and protest like Anne Rice? Would you see it as plagiarism or something else?
A few weeks ago, I was on a panel with three published authors of erotica at a small convention - the title was something like "romance, erotica, and porn." At least one of the 2 female authors started out in fanfic. The male author was the only one to say he thought fanfic has helped drive the market for original erotica and porn written for and purchased by women in recent years. Both women were courteous and not dismissive of me as the token fanficcer, but I got the feeling that if I hadn't been on the panel (not me personally, but me as a fanfic writer), there are things either or both might have said that they wouldn't outright say in front of me. One did say she regarded fanfic as basically something you do until you mature enough to write original fiction (which I did counter with polite disagreement, since I know authors who also dabble in fanfic on the side).
**By "fanfic" I'm referring only to FPF, not RPF. RPF doesn't really apply in this case, anyway.
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Date: 2009-07-30 06:03 pm (UTC)Writing fanfic taught me how to write with someone else's voice and how to add my own touch to that voice. Guess what, it came in really freaking useful when I started writing spec scripts for current tv shows. Fanfic put me way ahead of the game because it was a skill I had already developed.
But more on point, I would bask in the fact that people like my sandbox. And yeah, so long as it's all in fun and no one's making any money...I love writing fanfic, I'd love for people to love writing my characters as much as I love writing other people's. Share the love!