[ SECRET POST #2298 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2298 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #328.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Frankly, if you can't write original stories without having to use pre-existing character (regardless of whether or not they're thrown into an AU setting), you don't have any business writing original stories. If you do, you're just a thief with no ideas of your own.

[(Anonymous)]

Shakespeare would be sorry to hear that.

[(Anonymous)]

A+

hey there

[(Anonymous)]

Um so are you saying any work that comes from fanfic makes the writer a theif or stories that are aus with the characters' names changed. If its' the latter I sort of. Kinda think those fics are questionable. Because really if you can change the characters' name and have them come off as a brand new character then your characterization is really REALLY off.

But if its the former...lol please. Fanfic can make a great springboard and there's nothing wrong. My characters originated as fandom OCs in a fic I wrote seven years ago. I just built a world around them and changed them to fit.

[saiika_von_maou]

Haha, thanks anon, I got a good laugh.

[(Anonymous)]

The idea that you absolutely must not use characters/settings/plots from other works is actually relatively new.

It used to be totally acceptable as long as you had a new and interesting take on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, dear.

Knowledge of literature: nil

No prizes for identifying where that was stolen from, btw

[(Anonymous)]

Like Disney?

[(Anonymous)]

*looks at all the comments you've gotten*

ah, the new face of fandom.

where it's okay to write fanfiction, scrub the names and publish as new.

good to know.

when I was prolific in fandom, I had a lot of stuff I'd written that I was totally okay with leaving up for free because at the time it was frowned on to scrub and repurpose.

now I know it's totes ok to do a half assed job at changing names and selling it.

that will save me a ton of time.

[(Anonymous)]

You're missing the point: it depends how deep the scrub goes.

The difference between 50-shades-the-book and 50-shades-the-fanfiction was a very basic search and replace with the names. The characters are *still* very clearly identifiable.

Now, Lois Macmaster-Bujold on the other hand? Her early books might have a "Star Trek" feeling about them, but it's just a feeling: you can't point a finger and say "Oh, hey, this guy is Captain Kirk. And this guy is clearly Spock!"

THAT is cheating. Because if I wanted to read about Captain Kirk and Spock, I'd go and look for fanfiction.