From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com
On 2/17/15 1:43 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2015-02-17 16:07:29 +0000, Bill Swears said:
>
>> On 2/16/2015 4:58 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> In article <7bba8f14-c25e-492a-9564-0c499d7e99d9@googlegroups.com>,
>>> C. E. Gee wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 6:40:51 PM UTC-8, J.Pascal wrote:
>>>>> I was wondering who'd committed fan fiction (and was willing to
>>>> confess) and what effect you think it had on your writing ability and
>>>> career?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Julie
>>>>
>>>> Seriously, if you want to write SF, but cannot conjure up your own cast
>>>> of unique characters, settings, etc., you probably should give up the
>>>> idea of being an SF writer.
>>>>
>>>> And someone who is able to do the above will besmirch their reputation
>>>> as a writer by writing Fan Fiction.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, it has been often said that every writer has
>>> to put out a million words of crud before s/he can start writing
>>> saleable fiction.
>>>
>>> Fanfic is one way of getting rid of that million words.
>>>
>> I think that it has another function. Sometimes a set of characters
>> becomes alive for the reader/writer. When that happens, telling
>> stories in that universe might seem very natural. And there is a huge
>> trove of story set in particular universes. Not just Star Wars and
>> Star Trek (which have really large, licensed, canon of stories that
>> are in essence legal fanfic) but also the classic Greek islands, the
>> fairy tales, and etc.
Holmesiana still is alive and well, and being filmed even.
>
> And one is scarcely regarded as a /real/ Oz fan until at least one story
> has appeared on the Oz Research Table.
>
Then I guess I'm finally going to be a REAL Oz fan! :)
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