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Lurker,
Let me start by saying that I agree with you and everyone on the list. A lot
of writers have put their blood and soul into their fanfics, and if someone
wants to continue their work they deserve to be asked.
But your missing a key point. They are *fanfics*. You shouldn't take it so
personally. After all has everyone here asked Takahashi-san if her stories
could be continued? If she was as closed minded as everyone is appearing to
be, you wouldn't have been able to write Onna: Red Side(which is a very good
story by the way).
In conclusion, give Wild Pegasus a break. I doubt he meant any harm, he's
just another avid fanfic reader like the rest of us. I bet he's already
feeling like a heel for making such a suggestion.
Orlando Pedrajas
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-----Original Message-----
From: The Eternal Lost Lurker [mailto:perfect_cell@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:20 PM
To: Wild Pegasus; ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: Happy Anniversary!
Alright. This post offended me enough to draw me out of
hiding. (Despite the
fact that I've been here all along...)
We really need to agree on some sort of time-limit for
"lack of updates"
so other people can seize control of abandoned fics and finish them.
I cannot believe the audacity and gall of this suggestion.
Fanfic authors are not machines. They are people. They are
not here to serve
you. They are here to enjoy themselves.
When I started writing fanfic, I was having a lot of fun
doing it. Then I
hit bad periods of writer's block, while people kept
screaming at me for
updates.
Eventually, it got to the point where it stopped being fun
for me, which is
when I basically went into a long period of writer's
hibernation. I was
simply too frustrated at all the thoughtless nagging to WANT to write.
Now....those of us who put a lot of time and effort into our
fics are proud
of our work. We sat down, we spent hours of our lives
crafting something of
ourselves, our ideas, thoughts, and feelings, and
transferring them into
words, weaving in our favorite characters from our favorite
series. Those of
us most confident in our work put it out on display for all
to see, and
hopefully appreciate along with.
Fanfics aren't mass-produced, sterilized, homogenized pulp
novels. They're
pieces of the writer's soul.
Now, if I saw someone come along and suddenly "seize" Onna:
Red Side or
Suiseiki and start continuing it without even so much as a
word to me, or if
someone even came to me and asked if they could continue it
in my stead, I
would be HIGHLY insulted. It's *my* work, not *their* work.
It's *my* right
to continue it or abandon it as I please. Nobody but me has
any right to say
what should and should not be done with my work.
I'm fairly certain that other fanfic writers, such as the
esteemed RpM, feel
the same way.
My fanfics are MINE. His fanfics are his. That guy over
there...well, he
sucks, but even his crap is still HIS crap. The very IDEA of
what you are
proposing is worse than plagiarism. It's soul rape.
You have absolutely no right to come along and suggest that
statutes should
be imposed on abandoned fanfics. Nobody writes for YOU.
Everyone who writes,
writes because THEY WANT TO.
The Eternal Lost Lurker is back, ladies and gentlemen. And he
is not happy
at the moment.
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