o.O
Have I been living under a rock lately? A sister of a RL friend directed me to a blog post about some scandal involving a former Twilight fanfic being edited and then published as original fiction and people apparently going batshit insane because of it. I can't remember reading anything about this anywhere on my flist. Maybe because it's Twilight...
As far as I can tell people's anger is based on these opinions:
1. She's plagiarising herself. (Huh?)
2. She's making money off Meyers hard work and original ideas (ha!)
3. She's making fools out of non-suspecting readers making them pay for something that used to be free. (Yes, because free things should stay free 4EVAH! *rolls eyes*)
4. She's breaking the unspoken rule of not making money off fanfic. (Uh, she's not actually selling it as fanfic so, no.)
5. She's broken her devoted fanfic readers' trust f.ex. by possibly using their feedback to help in her rewriting and therefor making a profit of their input. (Seriously?)
6. She's going to make S. Meyer aware of fanfic which is gonna be the end of Twilight fanfic as we know it, OMG!!!!eleventy!!
7. The publishers lied, calling it original fiction (Turnitin deemed it 89% the same as the fanfic) and didn't let potential buyers know it used to be free Twilight fanfic.
I'm not sure which is my favourite, #6 or #5.
Obviously I'm biased because I am hoping to get my fanfic published as original fiction but this still strikes me as idiotic insanity. And the part about her breaking her reader's trust? Now I said from the start (well, when I posted Part 2 and later I added it to Part 1) that I was planning on rewriting Doors of Time as an original story so if people had issues with leaving feedback or whatever in case I used it to make my evil profit later on then they probably just didn't leave any. But nowhere here on my journal or in other places where it has been discussed have I seen anyone comment that if I got it published I would be breaking their trust or in any way be doing A Bad Thing. In fact people have been encouraging me from the get go to get it done. And if and when that happens I'll be the first to tell them it is for sale, it will then be their choice to either buy it or not. The story is available free until that time, feel free to download it to your heart's content.
I don't know how other authors handle their fanfic-to-book progress but when visiting some of their journals I've seen nothing but encouragement from their readers. No "You cheating whore!" or "OMG, you gonna bring fanfiction to its doom!" or "Where's my share, bitch?" or anything like that. Just "Yay!" and "Good luck!" and "Please let me know when/where I can buy it!"
Maybe they just aren't as batshit insane as these Twilight readers.
FYI, there's gonna be a series of posts about fanfic at Dearauthor.com. You can see their planned topics and an introduction here.
As far as I can tell people's anger is based on these opinions:
1. She's plagiarising herself. (Huh?)
2. She's making money off Meyers hard work and original ideas (ha!)
3. She's making fools out of non-suspecting readers making them pay for something that used to be free. (Yes, because free things should stay free 4EVAH! *rolls eyes*)
4. She's breaking the unspoken rule of not making money off fanfic. (Uh, she's not actually selling it as fanfic so, no.)
5. She's broken her devoted fanfic readers' trust f.ex. by possibly using their feedback to help in her rewriting and therefor making a profit of their input. (Seriously?)
6. She's going to make S. Meyer aware of fanfic which is gonna be the end of Twilight fanfic as we know it, OMG!!!!eleventy!!
7. The publishers lied, calling it original fiction (Turnitin deemed it 89% the same as the fanfic) and didn't let potential buyers know it used to be free Twilight fanfic.
I'm not sure which is my favourite, #6 or #5.
Obviously I'm biased because I am hoping to get my fanfic published as original fiction but this still strikes me as idiotic insanity. And the part about her breaking her reader's trust? Now I said from the start (well, when I posted Part 2 and later I added it to Part 1) that I was planning on rewriting Doors of Time as an original story so if people had issues with leaving feedback or whatever in case I used it to make my evil profit later on then they probably just didn't leave any. But nowhere here on my journal or in other places where it has been discussed have I seen anyone comment that if I got it published I would be breaking their trust or in any way be doing A Bad Thing. In fact people have been encouraging me from the get go to get it done. And if and when that happens I'll be the first to tell them it is for sale, it will then be their choice to either buy it or not. The story is available free until that time, feel free to download it to your heart's content.
I don't know how other authors handle their fanfic-to-book progress but when visiting some of their journals I've seen nothing but encouragement from their readers. No "You cheating whore!" or "OMG, you gonna bring fanfiction to its doom!" or "Where's my share, bitch?" or anything like that. Just "Yay!" and "Good luck!" and "Please let me know when/where I can buy it!"
Maybe they just aren't as batshit insane as these Twilight readers.
FYI, there's gonna be a series of posts about fanfic at Dearauthor.com. You can see their planned topics and an introduction here.