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- anomalocaris
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Re: Fan Fiction
What I see as a far worse form of plagarism --and sadly, it's harder to prosecute -- are the writers who take other writers' ideas and characters, tweak them ever so slightly and then sell them as their own. I'm still fuming over a writer who took Kevin Hearne's briliantly creative material and started putting out almost identical books. She even used the name of Hearne's protagonist for a secondary character. I contacted Mr. Hearne about it. Turned out he's very much aware of what she's doing, but she's carefully skating just barely on the legal side of the line where he probably wouldn't be successful in going after her.
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- anomalocaris
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Does anyone watch Supernatural? There is literally a plot line in season 4? (I think), where it turns out that someone has been writing books about the characters lives and they find out and sit down to learn about them and read fanfiction about themselves. That show is absurdly meta sometimes, but it was really funny to see the characters reacting to themselves as characters.anomalocaris wrote:I generally tried not to do that when I was playing with it. I tried to stick within the confines of "canon." I once read a hilarious fan fiction in which the "canon" characters were forced to work with the fan fiction versions. You know how fan fic writers tend to pick one characteristic and exaggerate it? A character who's slightly socially awkward becomes practically autistic in fan fic. A character who tends to be a little more in charge in a partnership becomes a bully. A character who's a little less assertive becomes a self-sacrificing, clinically depressed martyr who's into cutting. I suppose it's cathartic for the writers but it drives me nuts. So I loved the fan fic where the "canon" characters had to deal with those other versions of themselves, and just gave up in disgust and walked away.
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-anomalocaris, I'm curious, which series/author are you referring to?
-jhollan2, I remember that episode! I think the writer knew so much about Sam and Dean from eavesdropping on the angels, right? Or was that from a book I read? Hmm..
- jhollan2
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The writer was a Prophet of the Lord writing the Gospels of Winchester, but he didn't know it. He thought he was just making things up and having really vivid dreams until Sam and Dean showed up and were really angry that he was basically writing the unauthorized biography of their lives. Becky, one of the characters, writes Supernatural fanfiction and at one point they end up at a fan convention where a bunch of people are cosplaying as them.TJsmama wrote: -jhollan2, I remember that episode! I think the writer knew so much about Sam and Dean from eavesdropping on the angels, right? Or was that from a book I read? Hmm..
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When I first started writing them as a teenager I wrote them like the medium I got the idea from. If it was a tv show it was more dialogue heavy and some actions/emotions to go with them. It looked like a script for a show. If it was from a book then it read more like a novel. Over the years I learned to let go of the script type and just went for novel reads. Problem with that was is I was never taught grammar or spelling in school. So even though I almost get it through all the reading I do sometimes it just isn't enough. Spell check is my friend and I still work at least once a month to try to improve myself in this area.
My favorite type of fan fictions are cross overs. Taking two stories, two shows, a story and a show, etc. and mixing the characters and worlds together. Leaves for all kinds of amazing chaos and creativity.
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