[ SECRET POST #2706 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2706 ⌋

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Comments

Re: A rant on authors hating fan fiction

[ex_mek82]

Eh, I think it's a pretty grey area.

On the one hand -and to play Devil's Advocate-, I do understand where people like -for better or for worse- Anne Rice are coming from (echoing the anon above who pointed out the themes of 'Interview with a Vampire'). I have a non-fandom story of mine I've been chipping away at that's deeply personal, and I would admittedly feel uncomfortable if people wrote, say, modern day/human/barista!AU fan fiction of it. Mind, I wouldn't be able to read such fic for legal reasons.

(For the record, I do have other ideas I'd be perfectly okay with fan fiction existing for. And admittedly, I would be a hypocrite if I told people not to write fan fic full stop, since I write a bit of it myself every now and then. It's just that one idea, which frankly, I'm not 100% sure I'll ever attempt to publish. But I digress)

On the other hand, retelling stories -or crafting new ones with beloved characters from the halls of fiction in general- that have come before has kind of always been a part of human culture, dating all the way back to the stories of various religions, like Ovid's 'Metamorphosis' for the Greek pantheon, or even John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' for Christianity. This even includes public domain stuff, like Sherlock Holmes or Jane Austen's stuff. It says something about the impact these particular characters and their worlds have on people, much less pop culture as a whole. And if you squint hard enough, it also ties into the 'any publicity is good publicity' camp, ans some authors may even see fan fiction of their works as a way to get people interested in their own IPs/series/things.

I do think as the generations go on, the attitudes towards fan fiction will shift in a somewhat more positive/receptive direction, since a fair few authors now cut their teeth on writing fan fiction (some of whom have gotten to write actual tie-in/expanded universe material). But that remains to be seen, though I have a hunch that'll be the case in a post-'Fifty Shades of Grey' literary world.

But that's just my 2 cents. =T