I'm glad I'm not boring you. :) And I'll look for the book, thanks.
Feel free to comment; I can talk about what I had to change in order to meet the licensor requests.
The request was from an individual -- though there *is* a thriving fanfic community for that author's books, due in part to her encouragement/tolerance. But I don't take part in it, partly because I don't like mailing lists and partly because it weirds me out that it's posted to a list that she reads. Even with a warning, that's a little more in your face than I'm comfortable getting.
That's interesting, though. I know a number of writers who are less than willing to say they don't care about fanfic one way or the other in a public forum -- but they don't care if people do write it. I think fanfic is one of those political issues. A lot of professional writers loathe it, for a variety of reasons. Many refer to legal difficulties down the road, and I've read the cases for and against said legal difficulties.
Having said that, I don't think I know of anyone who would read fanfic based on their original fiction. There's a yahoo group that more or less talks about my novels. When I joined it, it was very small. As it's grown, I find that a) it's harder to keep up with and b) I feel that my presence in the discussion would stifle the discussion or kill it. Why? Because some of it is speculation, and obviously, were I not afraid of the whole Spoiler thing, I would be the authority.
In some ways, having any reaction at all to what was written would essentially have the same effect. Or I would think it would; I don't know. If fanfic is like writing with a net -- in that the world and canon is already established, and all that remains is to pour your own imagination into it -- having the author preside over it seems almost beside the point. Or possibly detrimental to it.
However due to fannish interest convergence, people I've met through Buffy also tend to like many of the same books I do, and one of them asked for this.
I'm assuming that in this case you've read and liked the original work. If you went ahead and did the reading research required otherwise, you're dedicated <g>.
In the fanfic community we don't talk about the specifics of our work as much as I may have implied -- though more than what you describe, since we don't have pro editors and must edit each other or go without. But since our friends and fellow writers are the same as our audience are the same as our fellow fans of the source material, a discussion of Buffy in season six can prompt me to write about Buffy in season six.
If you can have a discussion about season six that doesn't end in a meltdown, I'm impressed <g>. Fan editors have partial say in the final story? Or do they serve the function of a workshop?
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Date: 2004-10-20 08:44 pm (UTC)Feel free to comment; I can talk about what I had to change in order to meet the licensor requests.
The request was from an individual -- though there *is* a thriving fanfic community for that author's books, due in part to her encouragement/tolerance. But I don't take part in it, partly because I don't like mailing lists and partly because it weirds me out that it's posted to a list that she reads. Even with a warning, that's a little more in your face than I'm comfortable getting.
That's interesting, though. I know a number of writers who are less than willing to say they don't care about fanfic one way or the other in a public forum -- but they don't care if people do write it. I think fanfic is one of those political issues. A lot of professional writers loathe it, for a variety of reasons. Many refer to legal difficulties down the road, and I've read the cases for and against said legal difficulties.
Having said that, I don't think I know of anyone who would read fanfic based on their original fiction. There's a yahoo group that more or less talks about my novels. When I joined it, it was very small. As it's grown, I find that a) it's harder to keep up with and b) I feel that my presence in the discussion would stifle the discussion or kill it. Why? Because some of it is speculation, and obviously, were I not afraid of the whole Spoiler thing, I would be the authority.
In some ways, having any reaction at all to what was written would essentially have the same effect. Or I would think it would; I don't know. If fanfic is like writing with a net -- in that the world and canon is already established, and all that remains is to pour your own imagination into it -- having the author preside over it seems almost beside the point. Or possibly detrimental to it.
However due to fannish interest convergence, people I've met through Buffy also tend to like many of the same books I do, and one of them asked for this.
I'm assuming that in this case you've read and liked the original work. If you went ahead and did the reading research required otherwise, you're dedicated <g>.
In the fanfic community we don't talk about the specifics of our work as much as I may have implied -- though more than what you describe, since we don't have pro editors and must edit each other or go without. But since our friends and fellow writers are the same as our audience are the same as our fellow fans of the source material, a discussion of Buffy in season six can prompt me to write about Buffy in season six.
If you can have a discussion about season six that doesn't end in a meltdown, I'm impressed <g>. Fan editors have partial say in the final story? Or do they serve the function of a workshop?