From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 12:48:28 PM UTC-5, 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?   
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   > > -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.   
      
   If somebody does it a couple times nobody's gonna notice.  If you do it so   
   much people associate your name with fanfic, media-based fiction, movie   
   novelizations, and so forth, then some people will avoid everything with your   
   name on it.  I cannot support    
   this with statistical data; all I can say is that I do.   
      
   >    
   > I honestly think that Fan Fiction should be left up to die-hard fans and to   
   young students who want to be SF writers once they reach adulthood -- perhaps   
   they're in high school or below.  Writing is a craft, not a profession.  And   
   one learns a craft by    
   doing.   
   >    
   I think that people should write what they want to read.   
   And that they should decide what they want to write, and not get distracted   
   with what won't lead them to what they want to write.   
      
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