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Fanfiction: Is It Real Writing?
KevinEvans:
Well from my crass commercial viewpoint, how much are you getting paid for it? Grin.
My wife and I write in a shared universe, but we are paid pro rates, that is SFWA qualifying rates in a qualified market.
I think it all comes down to the quality of the work, if you are wondering about a story, file the serial numbers off (make it not conflict with the owned, and copyrighted plot or protagonists) and submit it.
There are lots of markets out there and they buy stuff on surprisingly regular basis.
Regards,
Kevin
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: KevinEvans on June 27, 2012, 08:43:05 AM ---Well from my crass commercial viewpoint, how much are you getting paid for it? Grin.
My wife and I write in a shared universe, but we are paid pro rates, that is SFWA qualifying rates in a qualified market.
I think it all comes down to the quality of the work, if you are wondering about a story, file the serial numbers off (make it not conflict with the owned, and copyrighted plot or protagonists) and submit it.
There are lots of markets out there and they buy stuff on surprisingly regular basis.
Regards,
Kevin
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I was going to say something similar to Kevin's comments...except the shared universe with his wife. But I had a Fanfiic story published legally. Sometimes someone will allow it. Star Trek did it, Dr. Who did it, I think a couple of games have, David Weber has but you had to be specifically invited in his case. I wish Butcher would. I understand why he doesn't but I still wish he would work something out.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 27, 2012, 05:01:26 PM ---
I was going to say something similar to Kevin's comments...except the shared universe with his wife. But I had a Fanfiic story published legally. Sometimes someone will allow it. Star Trek did it, Dr. Who did it, I think a couple of games have, David Weber has but you had to be specifically invited in his case. I wish Butcher would. I understand why he doesn't but I still wish he would work something out.
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Me too. I understand completely not wanting to let other people futz around with your creation, but from a purely Fan point of view, I just want more from my favorite worlds; it would be nice if Alera were to open up to other Authors to tell stories in, since JB says he doesn't expect to return to it any time soon. That is certainly a world big enough to tell multiple sotries.
trboturtle:
Speaking as someone who started with Fanfiction, it's a way to get a handle on the writing without having to worldbuild your own universe. I prefer to stick as close as I could to the source, but there are plenty of AUs out there, some are okay, others are "Why bother? Just change the names and it's an original story!"
Started with anime, moved into Battletech fanfiction, then into writing Battletech and getting paid for it. I've learn alot about writing during this time and I building my own original world in an Urban fantasy setting and have two half-written novels and a short story done. But it was fanfiction where I started, and if I find something in fanfiction worth reading, I will read it.
There's one website that has managed to take bits of many anime, scifi, and comics and creating its own universe. I mean where else can you read about Utena Tenjo fight a Bajorian Jedi knight in a rose duel, cheered on by a teenage Bobo Fett and The Teeen Titians' Koriand'r..... ;D
Craig
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 27, 2012, 05:34:04 PM ---Me too. I understand completely not wanting to let other people futz around with your creation, but from a purely Fan point of view, I just want more from my favorite worlds;
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Hmm. Interesting reaction, because when I really enjoy a world and think it's done well, I tend not to want more in it by anyone other than the original writer; because the better and more complex a fictional world is, the less likely any other writer is to Get It well enough for their attempts to follow through not to disappoint. (I base this on a number of tribute anthologies to things like Sandman and Elric and the War of the Worlds, each of which, that I recall, had one or two good stories among an avalanche of unsatisfying ones.)
I suppose that could be an argument for good writers fanficcing unsatisfying universes to make them better, but I think I'd rather have original stuff from the good writers in question.
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