Some will like parts of what you write, but not other parts. As an author, you'd better already have a very, very thick skin, because you'll find that the reviewers aren't all on your side - and who are they, but a particular segment of readers? The readers will see stuff you don't think you put there. You don't get to control whether you find that particular effect and reaction POSITIVE. They may wish to realize simple fantasies, or change events that bothered them so much that they can't stand to leave them that way, or may simply wish to extend the experience they had in your world, but the simple fact is that you have HAD AN EFFECT, a huge effect, on the writer of the fanfic. The existence of fanfic about your creations is a statement that your work has struck a chord in the reader SO POWERFUL that they feel driven to write more in that world.
(I don't necessarily subscribe to this worldview, but I find it interesting that many opponents of fanfic are often also rather literarily inclined).
The work, in this school of thought, is not truly complete until it is read, and a reader's experience of and perception of the work has a validity equal to that of the author's own perceptions of his work. The latter is interesting because it's CLOSELY related to one of the fundamental principles of standard literary criticism - that the author does not in fact have complete control over, or knowledge of, his or her work. My basic position is that fanfic is, put bluntly, one of the best compliments an author can be paid, even if the CONTENT of the fic is not what the author would like. There are a lot of issues around the production of fanfiction, ranging from the "why?" question to the practical business question of "will you be sued, and SHOULD you be sued"? I have written parts of, or edited, numerous other fanfiction works.Īs this will likely be quite a long article (and, depending on how loquacious I become, may even overflow the post limits), I have provided a My best-known fanfics include the Saint Seiya fics "Resurrection" (in five parts - Requiem, Rebirth, Ghosts, Awakening, and Meteor), "Wild Card", and "Snow Queen", the LotR/Gamefic "An American Gamer in Gondor", and the aforementioned "Terminators of Endearment, OR Pride and Extreme Prejudice". Forthcoming books are Threshold and Portal(tentative title), sequels to Boundary, and Grand Central Arena, a space opera with a likely publication date of Spring 2010. My published novels (by Baen Books) are Digital Knight, the short novel Diamonds Are Forever in the collection Mountain Magic, and Boundary, co-written with Eric Flint. So, once more, I will take on this giant, or windmill as the case may be.įor those who may have come to my blog from other directions, I have credentials to talk on both sides of this debate, as I am a published SF author - three books currently, three more under contract - who is also a fairly well-known and regarded writer of fanfic/gamefic. He's also apparently still blithely oblivious, or in serious denial, over the titanic irony of a man who writes media tie-in novels (translated: paid fanfic) railing against fanfic. I was (as you can see from the link) quite mistaken. As I hadn't heard anything about him lately, I'd made the assumption that he'd dropped the issue after his first few articles. The second was a discovery (by random search and link following) that to my surprise author Lee Goldberg has continued his periodic war against fanfiction. this thread drew my particular attention because it was titled "Terminators of Endearment ripoff" - said "Terminators of Endearment" being a cooperative fanfic/homage by Brenda Clough and myself derived from a remark by Eric Flint. One was a discussion on .written on the impending publication of Pride and Prejudice With Zombies.
This year's lecture and musings on fanfiction was triggered by a couple of things.
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