From: mdhangton@gmail.com

Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) used his keyboard to write :
> On 1/5/15 11:05 PM, William Vetter wrote:
>> It happens that J.Pascal formulated :
>>> I was wondering who'd committed fan fiction (and was willing to
>>> confess) and what effect you think it had on your writing ability and
>>> career?
>>>
>>> Also... what property engaged you enough to make you crazy enough to
>>> write in that world?  Did you just love the setting that much to want
>>> to play in it with a new cast, or was it the characters you wanted to
>>> see more of? Something else?
>>>
>>> I'll start.  I've never actually done it.  I've only been tempted.
>>> Once to have Taura bear Roic's baby before she died and have the
>>> little girl (girl, obviously) delivered to Vorkosigan house.  Not a
>>> plot, obviously, just a situation.
>>> My other temptation was Highlander - New characters and my idea of how
>>> a new TV series ought to work.  I've actually written some of that
>>> one.  Plotted out episodes and done a bit of character development and
>>> sketches.  In that case it's sort of heartbreaking to work on even
>>> though it fascinates me because it's simply impossible.  And don't say
>>> "file the serial numbers off" because that completely kills it for
>>> me.  As soon as I think of trying to separate it from what I think is
>>> SO COOL... it dies.
>>>
>> You've reached a skill level where you're not going to have trouble
>> finding a TV show or TV show script or TV show character that sucks. Ask
>> yourself what quality *this one* has that makes you want to fix it. Then
>> try to write something with that quality that isn't somebody else's
>> commercial property.
>>
>
> 	But that often defeats the purpose of WRITING the fic in the first place.
> I'm not trying to figure out how to create a knockoff of show X or book Y,
> I'm playing with THOSE CHARACTERS (and maybe some of my own) in THAT setting
> to explore EXACTLY THIS particular scenario, not "a scenario sort of like it
> in a setting kinda similar with characters that are analogues". That's just
> stupid if my purpose is to write something involving the given origin
> material.
>
I don't know what Julie Pascal's purpose is.  I was interpreting her
emotions.

But if you call me stupid one more time, I'm gonna add your name to my
filter.  If that would be good for you, then call me stupid again.

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