Hyvää juhannusta!
Jun. 27th, 2004 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmuzka*Pokes Friends list* Move! I want Chris pictures!
I'm cleaning my desktop. I have this nifty "post-it-note" program that imitates real yellow notes. I love them since I'm always hunting good one-liners and such. It's a great way to put up ideas in that second, without opening any new programs or worrying about saving or anything. Anyway, this means that I have to clean my desktop of the clutter every now and then. Now I found this. It's probably meant for as a response to something.
So,
By saying "original" fiction, we can mean two different things. First, fan fiction is original in a sense that somebody has written it completely by him/herself, free of straight plagiarism. If I write something, it's "Emma London original." The story ideas are not taken from a movie or a book but are as original as they can be in this genre of fiction, with hundreds of rules not written down.
The second definition for "original" is "non-fan-fiction". The characters are original, the setting is original, etc. This fiction bows humbly toward copyrights laws. You can write a novel that imitates Tom Clancy, the names sound the same, etc, even write in the cover "In the tradition of Tom Clancy", and it is perfectly legal, though not with good taste. So, in fan fiction, you *do* use characters created by somebody else than you, so it's never original.
Okay, so why on earth we write fiction that we know we have no legal rights to? That can never be published? This is an explanation that I used for my mom: (Originally this thought was written down by Torch) When you start a book, you dont know the characters. You don't care about them. You have to read the first 200+ pages just to get to know them. Okay, then, finally, in the end, you get the good part, the kiss, the death, the end, whatever. At this point you know the characters so good that you actually give a damn what happens to them. In fan fiction, you can skip the first "200 pages" of the story, because we already know the characters and are interested. We can get the "good stuff only", if we want. In fan fiction, the "200 pages" are also collective, we have all "read" them. That makes the stories much easier to share.
I myself am an emotion junkie. The quality isn't the point for me, but the ways the story makes me cry, or laugh. In a really good story, you can get this physical feeling, this pressure in your chest. I'm a sucker for that. (this usually means angst, but happy happy works also)
I'm cleaning my desktop. I have this nifty "post-it-note" program that imitates real yellow notes. I love them since I'm always hunting good one-liners and such. It's a great way to put up ideas in that second, without opening any new programs or worrying about saving or anything. Anyway, this means that I have to clean my desktop of the clutter every now and then. Now I found this. It's probably meant for as a response to something.
So,
By saying "original" fiction, we can mean two different things. First, fan fiction is original in a sense that somebody has written it completely by him/herself, free of straight plagiarism. If I write something, it's "Emma London original." The story ideas are not taken from a movie or a book but are as original as they can be in this genre of fiction, with hundreds of rules not written down.
The second definition for "original" is "non-fan-fiction". The characters are original, the setting is original, etc. This fiction bows humbly toward copyrights laws. You can write a novel that imitates Tom Clancy, the names sound the same, etc, even write in the cover "In the tradition of Tom Clancy", and it is perfectly legal, though not with good taste. So, in fan fiction, you *do* use characters created by somebody else than you, so it's never original.
Okay, so why on earth we write fiction that we know we have no legal rights to? That can never be published? This is an explanation that I used for my mom: (Originally this thought was written down by Torch) When you start a book, you dont know the characters. You don't care about them. You have to read the first 200+ pages just to get to know them. Okay, then, finally, in the end, you get the good part, the kiss, the death, the end, whatever. At this point you know the characters so good that you actually give a damn what happens to them. In fan fiction, you can skip the first "200 pages" of the story, because we already know the characters and are interested. We can get the "good stuff only", if we want. In fan fiction, the "200 pages" are also collective, we have all "read" them. That makes the stories much easier to share.
I myself am an emotion junkie. The quality isn't the point for me, but the ways the story makes me cry, or laugh. In a really good story, you can get this physical feeling, this pressure in your chest. I'm a sucker for that. (this usually means angst, but happy happy works also)
