![]() ![]() arrived from all over the internet to take issue with Diana. what's the correct term here? fanficcers? fan fictioneers? fans of fanfic? defenders of fanfic?. ![]() It's all there, for those who want to check out the "debate." Which soon, alas, became heated, as hundreds of. ![]() A thousand comments on her first two blog posts on the subject. (As it seems to do more and more often on this "interweb" thingie). Subsequent to Diana's first post, all hell broke loose. Diana recently outlined her own feelings about fan fiction - especially fan fiction involving her own world and characters - in a series of posts on her blog: and the occasional terrific short story and novella, some of which Gardner Dozois and I have been privileged to publish in our anthologies. One such is my friend Diana Gabaldon, author of the mega-bestselling OUTLANDER series. There are lots of us who oppose fan fiction, though. So there's a wide range of opinion on this matter, even among writers. Many writers have no idea that it exists, no concept of what it is (in part because of the confusing term "fan fiction," which subject I will return to later), and have given the subject no thought. Some writers actually encourage fan fiction (I know some of them, have heard their arguments), others don't seem to care one way or another (I know many of those). I'm against it, for a variety of reasons that I've stated previously more than once. GrrmMy position on so-called "fan fiction" is pretty well known. ![]()
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