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posesivnes of charicters
Wordmaker:
At this stage in my career, I'd be delighted if someone just put up entries for my books on Wikipedia and TV Tropes.
If I found out someone was entertained by my work to the point they were inspired to write fan fiction, I'd be thrilled.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on April 15, 2014, 03:03:05 AM ---I guess my first reaction would be how good is it.
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The chances of anybody fanficcing work of mine getting things right in ways that work with the vast volume of background stuff I know about the setting and characters that don't make it into the text are negligible, though.
Eire:
I think you've already mixed several things- ff writers never claim that they invented characters and usually copyringht prevent them from being published without permission. In USA and Western Europe, at least- Russians have very lax copyright and when it comes to fantasy lots of writers actively encourage fans to help them and come with own stories. I must say that I like this attitude- the original will always be the original and there's nothing bad in making fictional universe more diverse.
Remember that our whole culture is one great fanwork- you may devote your life to trace things based on Bible, Greek Mythology or Arthurian Legends and that won't be enough.
meg_evonne:
More to the point, how would you know it? On a practical side, no one but someone very good could possibly write your character like you can.
superpsycho:
I'm sure a really good writer could get a lot of things out of one of my characters I'd never even thought of but if they were a really good writer why would they need to.
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