[stylist] fan fiction was What are you Reading Right Now?

[Vejas]

Hi Tessa,
I remember my  freshman English teacher saying that Salinger was a recluse and, if I remember correctly, refused to have a movie made for the book.
Others might have been amused. 
I think fan fiction is something that lacks originality and is fine to do for yourself but not publish. I could see why a person would want to do it, for example a Harry Potter obsessive, but why not just create your own characters?
Even if you are not writing fan fiction, though, and you use your own characters, you end up using characters experiences but not in a bad way. As an example, in my story about 2 friends attending a training center who are totally opposites, one was not allowed to take wood shop because her rehab refused to pay for it which, unbelievably, happened to a friend when I was there. He could only be there for 3 months, and his counselor felt that kitchen and wood shop were a huge waste of time.
Vejas 

> On Oct 13, 2016, at 18:27, Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> There was a story a couple months back that someone had written a sequel to 
> Catcher, apparently the guy had no clue about copyright. J D Salenger was 
> not impressed, not that I blame him.
> Which raises the issue of fan fiction, there's an awful lot of it out there, 
> some people figure it's okay because at least it has people thinking and 
> writing. I don't know, I like to think that my characters are mine, and yet 
> a lot of times I get a lot of ideas and character traits from other books.
> Tessa
> 
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> :I read that book five times, once for the dirty words (when I was a kid), 
> once later on, and for three English classes.  I enjoyed the book, what an 
> adventure.  I really wanted to know how the main character ended up.
> :
> : Not many books I've read more often.
> :
> : Shawn
> :
> : -----Original Message-----
> : From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Erica 
> Turner via stylist
> : Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 12:08 PM
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> : Subject: Re: [stylist] What are you Reading Right Now?
> :
> : Hello everyone!
> :
> : I hope that this finds everyone doing well.
> :
> : I am reading "Catcher in the Rye"!
> :
> :
> : "I never cut class. I love getting A's. I like being smart. I like being 
> on time. I think that being smart is cooler than anything in the 
> world."--Michelle Obama
> :
> : Erica J. Turner
> : Sent from my iPhone
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> :
> : > On Oct 13, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Vejas via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> 
> wrote:
> : >
> : > Hi,
> : > We used to talk about books all the time, but not anymore. I thought I 
> would start this thread.
> : > The book I'm reading is called Smack by Melvin Burgess. It's about 2 
> English teenagers in the 1980's, boyfriend and girlfriend, who run away from 
> their messed up families, then have their lives changed because of a new 
> drug.
> : > How about everyone else?
> : > Vejas
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