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[zinnith]

So. Diana Gabaldon discovers fanfic and throws a shitfit. Aaaahhhh, people are writing PORN about her characters! Um... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who once upon a teenage time read the Outlander books solely for all the porn. My copies are still dogeared in all the naughty places :)

Happier news: Jim Butcher proves that he is, indeed, awesome.

Comments

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

Oh, for goodness' sake! I haven't read any of DG's novels, & now I surely won't waste time on them. It seems surprisingly juvenile for a multiply-published author.

Way back when I took creative writing instruction--which was, I grant you, prob'ly before Ms. Gabaldon was born, so perhaps there are new-fangled rules or methods I've not heard of--we were instructed to write something & then let it speak for itself. Explaining but I really meant or no, no, it actually means was forbidden; we accepted comments on what the commenter read, not what we meant to write. Is she afraid that fanfic readers are going to mistake someone else's writing for her own? Does she really think that reading fanfic is going to depress sales of her own novels? Or is she just having a hissy that she can't enforce a copyright on the names & historical time periods she favors?

The brief & classy announcement about fanfic on JB's could serve as an object lesson... tho' I doubt she'd read it (or admit reading it, anyhow). I enjoyed the first few Dresden Files books, & the few TV eps I caught; perhaps it's time to 'vote with my pocketbook' after the next paycheck. :-)

[zinfic.livejournal.com]

write something & then let it speak for itself
THIS, so much! It was the most important thing I learned in creative writing class - that when I turn a text over to someone else to read, I also turn over the right of interpretation to the reader.

I don't know what it is with these self-entitled authors and their fear of fanfic. I can fully understand not wanting to read it because of the copyright issues, but to go out in public and declare fanfic immoral? Does not make me want to keep reading her books.

(Not to mention the tired old argument of 'how would you feel if someone wrote fanfic based on your stories?' I'd be deeply flattered, that's how I would feel! I'm not too important to share my sandbox.)