[ SECRET POST #2618 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2618 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Those who have never created anything of their own are the first ones to justify this bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the kind of pithy absolutism that sounds good as long as you don't think critically about it. Writers want to get paid all the time. Go to any bookstore or library and you'll find lots of creations by people who expected to get paid for their writing.

[(Anonymous)]

*Original* creations by people who expected to get paid for their writing. Which is the point of the person you're responding to. They created something that you don't have a right to profit from.

If you want to profit from your writing, create your own original work.

[(Anonymous)]

A good chunk of published ~original~ fiction is, by and large, fanfic. It's historical fic about people who really existed, it's rewritings of literary classics or myths, sometimes it's just plain AU fanfic (like those Jane Austen horror AUs and stuff like that), but apparently those people making money with somebody else's work have a right to profit from that? So what's the "moral" difference between a published fanfic writer and a non-published one?

[(Anonymous)]

Public domain and history is not the same as selling Twilight fics, kiddo. ... Not that anyone would pay for that, but you never know!

[(Anonymous)]

Is this a joke about E.L. James becoming a millionaire from publishing AU Twilight fic? Because if it isn't, you look a bit silly.

[(Anonymous)]

EL James became a millionaire because the system allowed her to profit from another crappy author by masquerading a fanfic as an "original" work.

This has set a dangerous precedent, and now every loser is trying to do the same.

What will be the point in writing original books, if some stupid little kid can write a "fanfic", change names and erase some canon, and become an instant hit?

If you are for this shit, you are a moron and a hypocrite.

[(Anonymous)]

It's set a slightly crappy precedent maybe, but "dangerous"? Seriously? I don't think silly hyperbole helps your argument here. As for "what will be the point in writing original books", that's even sillier. 50 Shades was published three years ago. Have people stopped writing original fiction yet? Do you think that'll happen next year?

Please, try to develop some perspective and common sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't come crying when you see how right I am.

Moron.

[(Anonymous)]

Is Jane Austen's livelihood threatened by people posting horror AUs and "stuff like that"? Is that remotely the same as selling fic based on a living writer's current work?

[(Anonymous)]

How is anyone's livelihood threatened by people writing stories about a work that the original author wouldn't?

[(Anonymous)]

The shelves of tie-in novels in my local bookstores and libraries would beg to differ.

[(Anonymous)]

Tie-in novels are produced by people who own the rights to the property, and therefor have the right to profit from it. Unless it's a property licensed through Kindle Worlds or something like that, you simply don't have the right to profit from other people's creative work.

[(Anonymous)]

Public domain or licensing or illegal books?

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.

If people can't understand one simple sentence, how do they expect to profit from writing, anyway?