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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
lol. Nah. I'm a nice guy, so by saying that I'd prefer they stayed within the canon, I'm actually helping out the fanfic writer. Because some great writers have actually gotten their start writing fanfic.
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It's only "helping out" if their goal is to become a pro author. A lot of fanfic isn't written with that in mind. It isn't a training exercise, but a form of critique and review of the original, or exploration of aspects that canon will never address.
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Elfwreck: Wow, mega legal brief. ^_^;;
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Heh. I spend rather a lot of time on this subject.
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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
Now that some time has gone by, any of you who posted here have fan fic yet? Any of it good?
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*Grabs opportunity for self-promotion.* My fanfic is
available here at AO3; I've been told some of it's quite good. A lot is weird or explicit or both; some is based on in-jokes with other fans. If I had to recommend a few to someone who hadn't read much (or any) fanfic, I'd start with either
Two Birds in a Bar (Harry Potter/Batman crossover) or
Music Save Your Mortal Soul (based on the song Convoy). Or, for "short enough to read on a break at work,"
Stopping Five Things (Star Trek XI movie).
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None for me at this point, though I'm tempted to write some for myself. There are things I'd like to write, but there's no place for it in the story I'm trying to tell. Kind of insane to write fan fic for your own work, but I can't imagine I'm the only person who's had scenes she loved but didn't aid (or for that matter even fit with) the plot.
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I've known several pro authors who wrote fanfic for their own worlds, either missing scenes that weren't appropriate for the books (too explicit, or just didn't fit with the storyline ("here's minor-character's wedding scene which happened during the 4 years skipped between chapters"), or alternate pieces ("here's what happened if the heroine's first husband didn't die in that attack, but was captured instead"), or crossovers/alternate universes ("here's what they'd be like as rock stars instead of space pilots" or "... they're teleporting to the next planet, and Dr Who greets them!").