[ SECRET POST #1834 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1834 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 89 secrets from Secret Submission Post #262.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 4 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

20. http://i41.tinypic.com/idvmhh.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

is this that code geass fanfic again

[sandor051.livejournal.com]

?

[lemon-m.livejournal.com]

There was some wank a while ago about an author who was dead set on having the studio that made Code Geass buy his fanfic and turn it into a third season of the show, or publish it as a tie-in or something. I only know about it through the grapevine and I'm not int he fandom so I don't remember any names.

[(Anonymous)]

lok @ this forever

a+ memory anon

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I would certainly hope not as most of us in the fandom told the author "please don't get your hopes up; this isn't going to happen."
Also, oh I lol'ed.

[(Anonymous)]

I won't laugh at you, but other people will.

If you want to write fanfiction, that's fine, just don't expect it to be published. If you want to be published, that's fine too, just write something original (and don't give up).

If you want to publish fanfiction, write a fanfic of an original work that's in the public domain. Otherwise, you're only setting yourself up for disappointment.

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. It's a lot more difficult to get fanfiction published than it is original fiction because you need derivative work permission from the current copyright holders (and they're not about to hand over those rights to just anybody off the street), but it isn't impossible. There are official published novels for everything from Star Wars to Halo.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really.

I've seen authors in the Twilight fandom who just simply change the names of the characters and somehow managed to get it published.

I guess there is ways around that.

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

They're at least changing the names, thus making an attempt at "original" fiction (and if they can get away with it and not be slapped with CnD/CI lawsuit, then either the story is bad enough that it's not recognizable as Twilight, or Smeyer et al are turning a blind eye). That's not playing the same ballgame as publishing an actual Twilight novel as an official part of the franchise. Which again isn't easy, but it's not as impossible as the anon I replied to was indicating.

[shigeharu]

I think I remember reading an interview where a published SW author said that the license holders approached authors to write things involving the property, and not the other way around. So if you wanted to be a published SW writer, you pretty much had to be an established sci-fi author already; you couldn't just write them up and say "hey, so I had this idea."

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that pretty much is the way it works, though it depends on the property. Most companies are invite-only, but some others will at least listen to authors who pitch a good enough idea. I have no idea what fandom the OP is in, so I couldn't say for sure. But I would definitely recommend that if OP wants to actually publish it, OP should work on original stuff first in order to get established. Because regardless of being invite-only or not, companies aren't going to give their blessings to an author they're not 100% sure will sell.

[countess-k.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand this secret. Are you saying your writing a humongous fanfic and letting the copyright owners know about it even though it will never get published? Why?

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

The way I'm reading it, it seems that OP is writing it primarily Just Because, but has plans to get the blessings of the copyright holders in order to publish it. It's a longshot, but not impossible.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, considering they say in the secret "publishing it will probably never happen" they know it's a long shot and are probably doing it for the love.

[(Anonymous)]

This completely doesn't help you, but now I really want to go re-read this one The Flash novel I ordered online by accident and turned out to love immensely.

I also read some of the Buffy books as a kid. Some of those were awful in my opinion, lol.

[kathkin.livejournal.com]

Depending on the fandom the idea of getting it published may not be that out there. I know that until fairly recently Big Finish (at least I think it was Big Finish) took Doctor Who story pitches from fans. I assume they stopped cause it got out of hand.

Then again you've probably already done some research into copyright holder's policy. (And if you haven't you should.)