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

Thu Oct 20 15:36:32 UTC 2016

Bridget, I don't have kids, and I'm itching to go to the HP theme park!
Grin.

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I'm itching to visit the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park.
Just waiting for my kids to be a little older to take them. They are my
excuse for doing "kid" stuff, LOL!

Bridgit

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Ain't that true.
I'm reading a lot of Star Trek fan fiction.
I'm also a Harry Potter fan, collector of fine wooden wands, and a proud
Hufflepuff.
Thea

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The Harry Potter series borrows heavily from various characters and myths
and resources, and yet it's its own creation at the same time.

Bridgit

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All characters have bits an dpieces of other characters from other books
there.  It should have your on flare and style, though.

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Just as another thought to digest, I know of people that have read fanfic
that combines two worlds and it draws them into that second world enough to
out and read the published books in the world they were just introduced to.

Cindy

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I've read before that Rowling did not like the appropriation of her
material, but perhaps she has warmed up to it. I very recently read an
interview with Martin though, and he was not a fan of it. He feels it an
infringement upon his creative work and does not stimulate individual
creativity and thought. His opinions, not mine, smile.

Bridgit

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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one, who forbid it, and reputable fan fic sites do not publish stories in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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