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Originally Posted by fjtorres
But of the fiction, given the official invitation and veting, I don't think fan fiction is a term that fits the 163x Project: it is closer in tone to the THIEVES' WORLD or MEDEA shared universe project in that a significant portion of the contributions are accepted as canon and incorporated into traditionally-published volumes of the series.
So, taste issues aside, I would suggest it does not fit into a discussion of fan fiction.
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But surely the skills involved in writing it are the same: taking someone else's setting and characters and writing a story around them. It's the same as working on an existing TV show or comic or writing spinoffs, it seems to me. It's just that fanfic is rather less constrained.