Reading articles for Composition II

[shamanicshaymin]

I found this little gem from The Problem(s) With Fan Fiction:

If you’ve got crazy cool ideas for characters and relationships, don’t waste them in someone else’s world. Do you think Suzanne Collins would have been successful if she reworked her Hunger Game stories into works of Rugrats fan fiction?

Congratulations, author. You just shot yourself in the foot, 'cause now Hunger Games AUs in Rugrats fanfiction probably exists. Or will exist. I don't even like Rugrats, and the first thing I thought was, "Dude, now I wanna see Collins do dark Rugrats fic set in her own universe."

Is it me, or does a few of the anti-fanfic arguments seem misogynistic? "Ugh, women and their slash and talentless hacks masturbating over porn of someone else's characters! Stupid anime fangirls who crush over hot bishounen disrespect the author by writing fanfiction."

Comments

[tropicsbear]

TBH the only anti-fanfic argument I've seen is the, "Why waste time writing about other people's characters when you can write about your own." No one form of writing is inherently better than the other, and if I prefer to not make money but enjoy writing about fictional characters that other people created, then I will.

[shamanicshaymin]

You'd be surprised how big the fanfic debate is! I found a lot under "arguments against fanfiction," and there's the infamous posts of George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, and Diana Gabaldon as well. More info here.