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

[Sherry Gomes]

Actually, J>K> Rowling supports it, unless she's changed her mind recently.
She even said in some interviews that she'd read some of it, back in the day
and was surprised sometimes when people came close to some things she had
planned in the future of her series. Martin doesn't like it but has approved
it over the last couple years. There are other authors, Anne McCaffrey for
one, who forbid it, and reputable fan fic sites do not publish stories in
those authors' worlds.



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Fan fiction is a growing genre. It is a controversial form though. Some
published writers don't mind the appropriation of their work, while others
are adamantly against it. J. K. Rowling and J. R. R. Martin have been very
vocal about fan fiction and how they think it should not be allowed.

As a writer, I understand where they are coming from, but as a reader,
sometimes you want to continue a character's story.

A lot of fan fiction writers use a story as a starting point, but change
major things including character names to make it more their own. And
always, fan fiction can't be an exact rendering of a story. It has to have
its own plot, situations, scenes. You take existing characters and place
them in new plots, otherwise, it's plagerism, and you're doing nothing
original or creative.

One of the biggest, most famous examples of fan fiction is Fifty Shades of
Grey. It grew out of the author's love of Twilight. I've not read the
series, but I have read Twilight and not sure why anyone would want to make
fan fiction out of Twilight, ha-ha!

Bridgit

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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.
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: Not many books I've read more often.
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: Shawn
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: Hello everyone!
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: I hope that this finds everyone doing well.
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: I am reading "Catcher in the Rye"!
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: "I never cut class. I love getting A's. I like being smart. I like being 
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: > On Oct 13, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Vejas via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> 
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: > 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.
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