An Unreal Person Looks At Real Person Fanfiction
When I noticed that some Criminal Minds fans were starting an LJ Community for Real Person Fanfiction based on the series, I wondered a little about what they meant...so I looked up the Wikipedia entry...
Oh...kay...
So the concept is based on the premise that the celebrity is the subject of the story, not necessarily the character. And this has been going on since the Bronte kids put the Duke of Wellington's family through a set of literary paces that had nothing to do with history or then-current events.
I can't remember ever doing anything like this. Chillin' Out, however, is a special case, that I want to elaborate upon.
In it, I basically play myself as the story's central character. I'm the only "real" person in the cast; everbody else is an invention. Nothing that I've written about my central character is blatantly contradictory to my own living self. I don't give my real name in full in the story but there are enough clues in the text to say who I am--even though it was written ostensibly under the pseudonym I use here.
But would I be comfortable if I found that SOMEBODY ELSE had been writing fiction about me based on what they read in Chillin' Out? That's a tough question to answer...but I may have to if I get Chillin' Out complete and published for a wider audience than it has enjoyed so far.
Oh...kay...
So the concept is based on the premise that the celebrity is the subject of the story, not necessarily the character. And this has been going on since the Bronte kids put the Duke of Wellington's family through a set of literary paces that had nothing to do with history or then-current events.
I can't remember ever doing anything like this. Chillin' Out, however, is a special case, that I want to elaborate upon.
In it, I basically play myself as the story's central character. I'm the only "real" person in the cast; everbody else is an invention. Nothing that I've written about my central character is blatantly contradictory to my own living self. I don't give my real name in full in the story but there are enough clues in the text to say who I am--even though it was written ostensibly under the pseudonym I use here.
But would I be comfortable if I found that SOMEBODY ELSE had been writing fiction about me based on what they read in Chillin' Out? That's a tough question to answer...but I may have to if I get Chillin' Out complete and published for a wider audience than it has enjoyed so far.