tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post5073314727596634245..comments2024-01-02T16:42:15.732-05:00Comments on Redlines and Deadlines: Fan vs. FictionECPI Editorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569261288668237013noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-85357435732724855232007-11-26T16:09:00.000-05:002007-11-26T16:09:00.000-05:00I'm not embarrassed to admit I began writing fanfi...I'm not embarrassed to admit I began writing fanfiction many years ago and even had a story published in one of the print 'fanzines' that were often sold at science fiction conventions. I didn't make any money on that story, but the publishers of fanzines did sell them for profit. I have no idea how they managed to get away with it, but they did.<BR/><BR/>I cut my writing teeth on fanfic, then gave it up, cold turkey one day to write original stories because my dream was to be published and I knew I couldn't make a career writing fanfic. <BR/><BR/>Fanfic is great fun to write and to read, but for a career novelist it's not a profitable venue unless you can score a commercial deal with whoever holds the license on your favorite characters. A good agent can help with that, but they'll also be the first to tell you not to borrow anyone else's characters for your own profit.Two Voices Publishing https://www.blogger.com/profile/13509265828424193303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-52349636332265030782007-11-25T02:47:00.000-05:002007-11-25T02:47:00.000-05:00I used to write fanfic. Then I moved into origina...I used to write fanfic. Then I moved into original, and it crowded out the fannishness.<BR/><BR/>Fanfiction has been around since the second storyteller heard the first. Sometimes, it takes on then status of canon or deuterocanon (see the Apocrypha and the Talmud and Lancelot duLac, the first Mary Sue)<BR/><BR/>Written fanfiction as a fannish pursuit can be documented back to the Holmsian Societies of Victorian England, who were outraged at Holmes's death and redacted it into other adventures until Sir Arthur gave in and wrote more.<BR/><BR/>And my co-writer and I have used licensed characters to inspire some EC stuff. But only inspire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-48111757086523956892007-11-23T17:22:00.000-05:002007-11-23T17:22:00.000-05:00We get an uncomfortable number of fanfic submissio...We get an uncomfortable number of fanfic submissions. It's worrisome because it clearly indicates the writer has no idea about the publishing profession they aspire to enter.<BR/><BR/>I don't know how many published authors "start off" in fanfic. I know a number of them participate for the fun, but they understand that fanfic is not something to submit to their agent or editor.<BR/><BR/>Raelene, ECPIECPI Editorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00569261288668237013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-1202356645790034512007-11-23T14:24:00.000-05:002007-11-23T14:24:00.000-05:00Wow... I can't believe that someone who writes fan...Wow... I can't believe that someone who writes fanfiction would actually submit it to a publisher! Does that happen often? I've written fanfiction, and I also write original fiction. If there is a concept which intrigues me in a fandom, I might use it to inspire an original story.<BR/><BR/>Did any of your published authors actually start off writing fanfiction for fun? Or would they ever reveal that? I certainly wouldn't.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the article, and the blog!MoonWiseMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16338178422053636852noreply@blogger.com