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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Agreed!
Many use other people's work to basically encourage themselves to put their own spin on already established characters of what they wanted to see. If they discover they have developed a good following of people who like their versions of stories, that then gives them the courage to write their own characters and stories and even publish them with an already built in audience! That's a win for everyone. 
So long as they aren't selling the stories I have no problem with them writing fanfic for fun and other people's enjoyment.
A fan fic story introduced me to an author who I then proceeded to buy just about every book she has written. So that "rip off" can work both ways! |
I've been introduced some authors because of their work writing tie-in fiction such as Star Trek. I see this as no problem at all.