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So. Diana Gabaldon discovers fanfic and throws a shitfit. Aaaahhhh, people are writing PORN about her characters! Um... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who once upon a teenage time read the Outlander books solely for all the porn. My copies are still dogeared in all the naughty places :)

Happier news: Jim Butcher proves that he is, indeed,

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[mesmorizee]

Um... I have no idea who that woman is. But she sounds like a crazy person. Seriously. It isn't like the fanfic is hurting anyone, nobody is getting paid except for her when more people discover her books through fanfic and decides to buy them. Oh, well, some people just don't get it.

Should I try reading Jim Butcher again? And maybe not start with book three or whatever I did start with last time.

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Diana Gabaldon wrote this series of romance novels about a modern age woman who travels back in time and falls in love with a 18:th century Scotsman (who, incidentally, was based off of a Doctor Who character. How's that for irony?). The first three or four books are okay but there is way more porn than plot. I used to love them when I was seventeen :)

You should definitely read Jim Butcher! The Dresden Files are like crack. I've got the first six paperbacks if you want to borrow!

[sgamadison]

Makes me want to tell the one to get over herself (and point out that maybe it will draw new readers to her work--I certainly pick up new interests and music that way) and hug the other. :-)

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It makes me want to write long and rambly meta concerning fanfic but a lot of other people already did and I don't think I have anything interesting to add :)

[sgamadison]

Yeah, it made such a stir, even D asked me if I'd heard about it as he'd run across it on a thread (where most of the people responding thought she was nuts) :-)

[tangotabby]

Wow. Just.... wow. I suppose making icons from screencaps falls into the same category. *sigh* Have read DG's books, but stopped after they got a bit too graphic in the violence (does anyone *really* want "drawn and quartered" described in detail???) Haven't read JB, but liked the TV version of Dresden Files; I think I need to support him now! :-)

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The Dresden Files books are way better than the TV-show! (Although the show was pretty charming too. I recommend watching it first and then read the books for the most satisfying experience.)
I loved the first few books in the Outlander series but I haven't been able to get through the later ones.

[wanted_a_pony]

Oh, for goodness' sake! I haven't read any of DG's novels, & now I surely won't waste time on them. It seems surprisingly juvenile for a multiply-published author.

Way back when I took creative writing instruction--which was, I grant you, prob'ly before Ms. Gabaldon was born, so perhaps there are new-fangled rules or methods I've not heard of--we were instructed to write something & then let it speak for itself. Explaining but I really meant or no, no, it actually means was forbidden; we accepted comments on what the commenter read, not what we meant to write. Is she afraid that fanfic readers are going to mistake someone else's writing for her own? Does she really think that reading fanfic is going to depress sales of her own novels? Or is she just having a hissy that she can't enforce a copyright on the names & historical time periods she favors?

The brief & classy announcement about fanfic on JB's could serve as an object lesson... tho' I doubt she'd read it (or admit reading it, anyhow). I enjoyed the first few Dresden

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write something & then let it speak for itself
THIS, so much! It was the most important thing I learned in creative writing class - that when I turn a text over to someone else to read, I also turn over the right of interpretation to the reader.

I don't know what it is with these self-entitled authors and their fear of fanfic. I can fully understand not wanting to read it because of the copyright issues, but to go out in public and declare fanfic immoral? Does not make me want to keep reading her books.

(Not to mention the tired old argument of 'how would you feel if someone wrote fanfic based on your stories?' I'd be deeply flattered, that's how I would feel! I'm not too important to share my sandbox.)