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

Fri Oct 14 14:25:11 UTC 2016

Vejas,

Good fan fiction does require creativity and originality. Even though you
are using existing characters, you need to create new storylines for them.
Place them in new plots. Some fan fic writers take characters and place them
in entirely new environments. Some take them and loosely use them to create
a new story, pretty much coming up with a whole new world and sometimes
giving those characters new traits. Some writers continue on with a
particular thread maybe not fully explored in the original. However they
approach it, good fan fic does take as much planning and creativity as any
other type of writing.

Fan fic is not for everyone, and that's okay. But it's important to remember
we all borrow something from life for our stories. Whether it be other books
or real life, we take elements and comb it into our own work. Fan fiction
isn't so different than what most of us do. And for many, writing fan fic is
a jumping point to stimulate creativity, allowing them to eventually create
new, original characters and stories. One of my favorite YA fantasy writers
started as a fan fic writer. Cassandra Clare wrote very popular fan fiction
about The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and more. She now has an
extremely popular series, several in fact, and a movie and now TV show have
adapted one of her series. Her new work is original, although, much like
Rowling, she sneaks in literary references and metaphors. But fan fic jolted
her into the writing community, providing a literary voice.

It's also just fun, grin.

Bridgit

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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
> :
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> : From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Erica 
> Turner via stylist
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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?
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