Fan Fiction: Against

[rolanni]

Robin Hobb has posted a cogent rant here. Link from pegkerr

I know that some folks on my friends list write fan fic, and may thus not agree with Robin's points. If you feel compelled to disagree with them here, please be polite and rational. Posts deemed impolite, irrational, or both, by Eagles Over the Kennebec Management will be deleted.

In the service of Full Disclosure and Fair Warning, I do agree with Robin's points. Scott Lynch (link also from pegkerr) does not.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

...a better model would distinguish between individually created works (most prose fiction) and collectively created milieus (dramatic/performed media, RPG-derived settings, prose "shared-world" universes).

Djonn, that's elegant, and it probably would let people talk to each other (as opposed to shouting at each other), if there could be some general understanding that the two processes are similar-but-not-exact, with not-very-similar desired payoffs. I'm likening the "collective creations" to open-source programming -- community creativity in service of one project -- for my ease of thought.