So Much Fanfic, Too Much.

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I really enjoy stories that are well written, and are NOT Fanfic. I love writers who use their own brains and imaginations.

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I've done a few

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Patricia Marie Allen's picture

I mostly like to work with my own ideas. Doing fanfic kind of boxes an author in. Even writing in a universe does that. That said, I've done a few. Sometimes you read a story and there's another story in there that's dying to be told and the author just didn't go there. I have one posted here. "It Was His Mistake, So Why am I Dressed Like This". Originally posted on Fictionmania".

In it, I credit the author, cite the original story and link to that story; "Based on “One Small Mistake,” by Rachel Ann Cooper. Rachel reviewed my story on Fictionmania:

"Reviewed by Rachel Ann Cooper on 02/26/2002
Very much enjoyed where you went with this and the segways between plots were flawless. They're young. This could get more complicated ;o)."

I've done a couple of others. One I couldn't get the original author's permission to post, so it has been lost. To bad, I really liked it. In another, I hijacked the story and went another direction with the ending. The author agreed to allow it, providing I noted in the story just where the storyline changed direction.

There have been a few that I'd have liked to continue with fanfic, but just couldn't capture the characters and so would have mutilated the story line. As I said, writing with someone else's characters and setting, boxes you in. I much prefer my own inspirations and storyline.

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Patricia

Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
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Not too much

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Currently, there is actually very little fanfic on BC. Some of it is Whately universe fanfic which is fanfic only in the sense that it is non-canon.

Good fanfic is actually HARDER to write than freeform stuff. All the professional writers for TV and movie series and most comic books are performing the same kind of thing as fanfic writers. And it's hard. Having a place where people can practice that kind of writing for an audience is valuable.

BC allows fanfic but does not encourage it for legal reasons. A complaint from an originator would mean the fanfic would have to come down.

All that said, this stuff comes and goes in waves. A complaint about too much fanfic is exactly like a complaint about too much magic or shopping or horror. The situation is corrected by simply reading something else and waiting. There are 40,000+ stories and chapters on BC. No one has read them all. There are about 11 fiction posts a day or more plus blogs and forums.

There is never too much of anything because too much is never enough.

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Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

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Andrea Lena's picture

Apart from being homage to favorites, I’ve found that writing fan fiction in the style and various genres of authors has challenged me as a writer. My next endeavor in that regard is another Swedish TV tip of the hat. This time to Saga Noren from The Bridge.

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Not all Fanfiction is equal.

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Katherine Phillips's picture

I recently released the first draft of my book on here and it's a Fanfiction in name only. There aren't any characters from the original Tuck series, they are in a completely different state, and its 20+ years later.

Now maybe I'm in the minority when it comes to this type of fanfiction, which is a possibility but I don't feel hindered in any way. I just assumed that the original stories entrepreneur (Debbie) continued what she was doing and I added a store of hers as 'flavor' rather than anything story related.

I did want to explore some of the Tuck series though so I created a fanfiction of my book so that I could do just that. No ones caught on just yet but the fanfiction and my books timestamps are different. My fanfiction's fanfiction's timestamps are the same as the Tuck series.

That last sentence is pretty confusing which is why I mentioned the 'Yo Dawg' meme in my last post.

Anyways I figured I might as well be creative in my approach so that I can still sell my book.

I'm honestly more worried about the songs my characters sing along to than the whole fanfiction thing.

It's Easy.

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I actually have six fanfic titles here on BCTS.

"Charlie and Her Angels" - My fanfic of the TV/Movie franchise, "Charlie's Angels," which stars a rookie cop named Charles Townsend who is transformed into a beautiful blonde called Jill Munroe, and, along with her two best friends Sabrina and Kelly, two others transformed just like her, now makes up the detectives assigned to New York office of the Townsend Detective Agency. My fanfic is currently made up of three separately-posted complete short stories, and is part of my short story collection that I call "Bobbie's Little Stories."

"Doctor Who?" - My fanfic of BBC TV's "Doctor Who," which stars Dr. Quinn Valentine and her best friend, Binky Kristensen, as pinch-hitters for the doctor when she's not available, or not on Earth. My fanfic is currently made up of three separately-posted complete short stories, and is part of my short story collection that I call "Bobbie's Little Stories."

"Eureka: The Day's Not Over, Yet?" - My fanfic of Syfy's TV series, "Eureka," which stars the character, Sheriff Jack Carter from the original series, but my version is able to transform into any of thirty-two people at will. It's currently made up of one complete story made up by twelve separately-posted chapters called "episodes."

"Transformers Revisited" - My fanfic of the TV/Movie franchise, "Transformers," which stars an ex-Marine DC Police lieutenant Ronald Charles McKenzie, also called "RC," who is changed into a female Autobot by a fragment of the Allspark. It's currently made up of one posted complete story which contains fourteen chapters.

"The New Agent" - My fanfic of the TV series, "Warehouse 13," which stars DC CSI Doctor Devon McMasters who was transformed into a blonde hottie because he was stabbed in the heart with a warehouse artifact. It's currently made up of one posted complete story which contains one prologue and nine chapters.

"Playing The Part: Counterfeit Crusader" - My fanfic of the Marvel character, "The Black Widow," and Lilith Langtree's story universe, "The Center," and stars the protagonist from my own story, "Danny." This is just one posted short story which acts as one of the companion pieces for "Danny."

I don't deny I write a substantial number of fanfics, but I mostly write original stuff. In any case, for me, writing a fanfic is easier because the story universe and a lot of the background stuff, such as secondary characters, locales and locations, antagonists, character backgrounds, et cetera et cetera, have already been thought up, allowing me to go directly into the fun part of writing the actual fanfic story, which is the telling of the actual story itself, and far from being hamstrung by previous stories, I feel it easier because I just need to add to them. Fanfics work, but only if you are a "fan," because it is a "fanfic" after all - if one isn't really a fan, then one will find it hard to write a fanfic.

Imagine you are a kid, and you are talking to your friend, and saying, "hey, I just got a copy of the latest Spiderman comicbook. It was great! The art was great, and the story in this issue was great, especially the last part... But, you know, I wish Peter Parker did this instead, and sock Doc Ock in the face when he did this, and then, what if, in the next issue, Peter did this, and Gwen Stacy comes dressed as Spider Gwen, and she and Peter gets to fight Darth Vader, who pops out of a rip in time with a whole platoon of Sith warriors..."

The idea of making a fanfic is all about a movie, TV show, book or something one loves, and thinking of "what if," and fleshing out or making a version of the movie, TV show, book or etc. of this "what if." It all boils down to writing out something that one wishes to see in her favorite show or book, and that alone makes it fun. And easy.

Like any piece of writing, if one likes what one is writing, it is easy. So if you're a fan of something, then, naturally, you'd like it and it'd be easy. Right?

 

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