Fanfiction

Does anyone here dabble in the genre?
If so what shows, ever posted anything on any sites etc.

I've been writing fanfiction for ages. Started off with Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet (lame I know, but I was ten) and am currently obsessing over MASH. So plenty of those stories lurking around on my computer.

Haven't posted anything yet. Keep meaning to but get sidetracked with editing or the next story.

Do tell me I'm not the only one.

TTFN
Sage

 

hmm...i'm not quite sure what fanfiction is...

 

Fanfiction is where you take an established story and characters and impliment them into a story of your own. I'm not a big fan as it involves taking part of a writers creation and bending it to your whim

 

Tell that to acclaimed authors Dibdin and Estlemen who 'bent' Sherlock Holmes and Dracula to their 'whim'. Fanfiction is a form of pastiche -- some forms are legal and use out of copyright characters, others are allowed or tolerated by the original creators (e.g. some Hellraiser and Mercedes lackey-world zines), others are not so legal and so something of a risk to writers who want to go on to be published.

 

i like fan fiction.... i read mostly music fan fiction though

 

Fanfiction is a good way to disguise your lack of creativity by using a foundation another writer worked hard to create and basing your own piece of shit story on it.

 

Thats really mature. If someone is happy to write fanfiction then so what? Does it really offend you that much? And if so, I think you need to think a little more about yourself, and your own creativity.
What am I saying. Your writings must be so much better than anything penned by some no-talent fanfiction-writing wannabe. (that was sarcasm).
Prove me wrong Cat.
Peacefrog_321@yahoo.com

 

Definitely tell that to all the writers who use out of copyright pre-existing characters (incl. Bernard Cornwell, Mary Stewart and many other luminaries)

 

Luminaries? That's laughable at best.

And, it doesn't upset me that people write fanfiction, it's just that their work requires less creativity, and less skill besides.

 

If you consider Dibdin, Estleman, Cornwell and Stewart less than creative, um well, nothing more to be said really. I could add Shakespeare, Mercedes Lackey and a number of others to the list of those who reinterpret exisitng characters. It can be done well of badly, like any type of story.

 

Shakespeare did more than reinterpret. He basically recreated the characters he used. He just liked to have a backstory to refer to and make a joke of sometimes. They were his own.

 

I gotta agree with Cat In a Stove (Where did you come up with that name )
How do you think the original creators feel when they see their characters, their souls being twisted by someone else and them reciving credit for the works. FanFiction is something you do to pass the time, not to use as a step up to becoming something great. It shows a lack of creativity to me. Your taking something already there and going "Huh! Thats cool but I'ma make it do this instead."

How bout I do it for him. Lets look at your logic here. If someone is happy stealing (lets not kid ourselves, its what it it) someone elses essence and then calling it their own creation, that is a problem. I find it appaling. Its prolly why Hollywood hasn't come up with anything good recently. Also lets look at this... if hes saying somethings bad, does he have to be a better writer to know whats bad? Do I have to be signed to a record contract in order to say Good Charollete is the worst thing to ever surface on this Earth and they need to be taken out back and shot. I think not. Movie critics have no problem blamming flicks and they dont make movies. How aobut you think about what you say before opening you mouth?

 

No, almost all of Shakespeares works were either histories or retellings of traditional tales. That's the very first thing you learn about his plays if you study them.

Also fanfiction and copyright infringement, as I have already said, are not synonymous.

 

It is perfectly legal, but that doesn't make it ethical.

Fanfiction authors are not true writers. True writers develop their own ideas, characters, plots, and stories. This isn't to say fanfic authors can't become true writers, but as long as they're stealing past stories, they are not true writers.

 

Yeah, I give up -- Lawrence Dibdin, Mary Stewart and Shakespeare aren't true writers. Nope.

 

To tell the truth I always thought Shakespear was over-rated

 

Yep. I am converted. Fanfiction is always uncreative and Shakespear [sic] is over-rated.

 

Sorry for making a tpyo Mr. Sarcastic Holier-Than-Thou literature scholar (Sp) extrodinare

 

Did you read what I said?

"Fanfiction authors are not true writers. True writers develop their own ideas, characters, plots, and stories. This isn't to say fanfic authors can't become true writers, but as long as they're stealing past stories, they are not true writers."


No wonder you're not a true writer. You only read shit half-assed.

 

I was giving example of fanfic writers that it is hard to say are not 'true' -- i.e. award winning top sellers.