Ramblings and I mean ramblings about reading and writing...:)

[claudia603]

So, I do enjoy reading this blog on occasion called Pub Rants, from the point of view of an agent who has some bestselling author clients. She's very blunt and to the point about trends in publishing and what she/editors want and don't want. Anyway, I spent like 2 hours reading through the blog last night, because I hadn't really looked at it in

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[baranduin]

I've read the first volume of Fifty Shades and I enjoyed it in a "boy is this bad" way. It started life as a Twilight fanfic, and you can tell. I started the second book (it's a trilogy of course) but got bored a little ways through and doubt I'll go back. It's making a mint. I love it that a fanfic writer successfully filed off the serial numbers and made a go of it.

[claudia603]

Absolutely, more power to her. Wow, I hadn't known that it was Twilight fan fic.

[dreamflower02]

Except it makes it harder for those of us who just want to enjoy writing fanfic for its own sake to answer well-meaning people who tell us "Oh, but you should try to get your stories published. You could just change the names!"

[baranduin]

Can't say I agree with that at all. Nobody's stopping you from writing. Sadly there are always going to be well-meaning people who don't get it. But it's not any writer's responsibility to say, "oh, I better not, I'll ruin it for the others." Actually I think this is a good thing, it brings fanfic more, I dunno, respectability maybe though that's not right I don't care about that, I guess it brings it more mainstream and into the light. Which I know a lot of fanfic writers don't like, they like their little fantasy of it all being so subversive.

[claudia603]

Yeah, that part doesn't bother me at all. I figure it's none of anyone's business how I spend my writing time. I see writing fan fic as sharing with friends (and anyone else who wants to read it) in a shared universe. I see writing original fic as general entertainment for anyone (not just friends or people that think like me) that would possibly have a financial feedback for me. *shrugs* If I thought any of my fan fic would come across well as original fic? I wouldn't have any problem doing what this author did. Frodo/Aragorn romance wouldn't translate so well with just names changed, lol, but you never know...!

I think that's a good point as to why fan fic writers don't like this bringing fan fic more mainstream. I can see that. I sort of feel that. Sort of like, hey this is MY private realm. Don't make it Hollywood! But I don't feel that emotionally attached one way or the other...