[FFML] Continue dead or abandon fics by other authors.

[Ignacio Moreno]

I dont get it.

What is the difference between direct continuations and fanfanfic??

By the way, I don't like the fanfanfic word. It's a mouthful and I don't
think that we have to make a distinction between both types.

Greetings.

Kinai.
El 17/8/2015 12:42, "Marask Obliviane" <obliviane at hotmail.com> escribió:

> *de-lurks*
>
> (My e-mail client has had quite a number of updates since
> 2007, so I hope I remember how to format this correctly.)
>
> As it happens, I have 2¢ to add to this topic, too. I have, on
> several occasions, searched for authors whose works are no
> longer archived anywhere on the Internet and exist only as
> saved pages on my hard drive. (The authors in question were
> from Sailor Moon fandom, and were never big names.) As
> another poster here has observed, there are people who are
> nothing more than a pseudonym and a dead e-mail address,
> often from an e-mail provider that went out of business years
> ago, and that is what I encountered when I embarked on these
> little quests. What to do when there are no leads to follow?
>
> My goal, in each instance, was to ask permission to write a
> remake or reimagining of the work, rather than an outright
> continuation. This is what used to be called a 'fanfanfic',
> at least in certain fandoms. It eliminates the issue of pulling
> a Holy Grail (i.e. finishing a story when the intentions of the
> original author are unknown and unknowable; this is one of
> the most notable historical instances of fan fiction). The
> down side is that it involves starting more or less from
> scratch, with only a rough blueprint to follow. Not the same
> as a direct continuation.
>
> The basic principle remains the same, though: Always ask
> permission, even if there is no hope of a response, and, if
> there IS no response, be certain to include due credit and
> apology in the foreword to a story as a courtesy. This is how
> I treat fanfanfics; I imagine the same principle applies to
> direct continuations.
>
> -- I Abibde / The Samuraiter
> In the fanfic business since 1999.
>
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