This discussion did not go necessarily where I thought it would go when I first posted. But that's OK
Sylvanus wrote a day or ago
Quote:Personally, I don't like the vast majority of fan-fic I've ever laid eyes on... Well, YMMV
And Zahir, Ms. Rice is very well known in most areas for her strong and vigorous pursuit of fan writers, and that is her right. However, I have read recent quotes for JK Rowling, that are encouraging of fan writers (regardless, I know there is a site on the net that has been set upon by the Corporate powers and it hosted Potter fan fiction; however, my understanding of that is this site had its problems because said fics were of the NC-17 variety (kinda to very smutty), and there was not identification of the stories being potentially less than suitable for all readers. Information is AFAIK, I am not an expert on this matter, and any information I have is at best second hand). Furthermore, FWIW, Anne McCaffrey has a non-interest to active interest in fan authors, and Joss Whedon (creator of BtVS), said at the begining of Buffy that he expected fan stories to be written from the begining of the series.
And before, you begin to discount this entire discussion as a fairly unsubstantial fanboy rant. Well, there is professor at Portland State University, Antonia Levi, doing research on fan fiction, for a future book. She is conducting a survey, web.pdx.edu/~levia. Dr. Levi's past work has been on Japanese anime and manga.
Lastly, I within the last two weeks or so, attended a local convention of Dr. Who fans
www.chicagotardis.com/, and discovered a whole universe of fan authors I did not know about before.
Ok, being quite now. taraswizard
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