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In the wake of the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' issue (former Twilight fic published with the names changed, currently all anyone's talking about in publishing and at the top of the best-seller lists) there's been a lot of talk about fanfic and what it is.
Dear Author asked a few of us authors who write/wrote it as well as writing professionally for our thoughts. Sunita gave us some questions as prompts and we had a round table discussion that she edited together.
The post's up now here with contributions from me, Tamara Allen, Jami Gold, and Cyndy Aleo.
Dear Author asked a few of us authors who write/wrote it as well as writing professionally for our thoughts. Sunita gave us some questions as prompts and we had a round table discussion that she edited together.
The post's up now here with contributions from me, Tamara Allen, Jami Gold, and Cyndy Aleo.
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Personally I've never been happy with fanfic based on books or even on a movie; I feel they're too much the intellectual property of one person. I'm happier with a TV series because that's already been 'up for grabs', so to speak, with several different writers producing scripts for it; but I won't write in a series that's still in production.
I feel AUs are a halfway point between fanfic and original writing; the writer is using established characters in a world she has created, or (much less often) using original characters in the world of a TV series.
Re playing in someone else's sandbox. Back in the days of zine fandom, it was relatively common for someone to be inspired by a story and write a sequel to it - we called it a creative response, and felt quite flattered when it happened. However, it was considered unethical to submit it to anyone other than the editor who printed the original story. Fan writers got a lot more possessive of their work when it was put on the internet, and acceptance of the creative response disappeared.
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