Briefly, on fan fiction.
May. 8th, 2010 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSeeing a little running commentary by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuki_onna on fan fiction and authors' reactions to it made me feel like it was time to reiterate my own stance: I don't have a problem with people writing and sharing fan fiction based on my creations, but I'm not interested in reading it.
I am interested in seeing fan art, of course, and I even created a community where you can share it:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
the_art_of_mu. While this is an "official" place for it, you are by no means restricted to only putting it there. Put it up on your DeviantArt account. Share it on your own Livejournal. Add it to your personal online portfolio. Whatever. I just ask that if you're proud enough of your artwork to want people to see it, please submit it to the art community so that I cna see it, and if I find it awesome, point people to it.
I can't draw. At all. I can barely picture things in my head. Someone says "picture a rocking horse", and I get the words "a rocking horse" in my head. So it's really neat to see how people envision my character. The icon on this post is from a piece of fan art.
My stance about fan fic at the beginning was "please don't", because unlike most professional authors, my work used the same medium and channels of distribution and promotion as fan fiction. Until I established a name and a presence for myself, it seemed entirely possible that a fan version could occlude the official continuity, or engender conclusion about who MU "really" belonged to. It's hard enough to convince some people that things created on the internet are Real Things in the same way that things printed out on paper are. That's no longer a concern, though, and hasn't been for a while.
(Some people might suggest that I missed an opportunity by telling people who wanted to write fan fic to please not... it's also entirely possible that if I'd said "Sure, feel free!" that I'd have caught a number of new readers from fan fic communities. It's possible, and I thought about it. I decided that the risk outweighed the reward.)
yuki_onna on fan fiction and authors' reactions to it made me feel like it was time to reiterate my own stance: I don't have a problem with people writing and sharing fan fiction based on my creations, but I'm not interested in reading it. I am interested in seeing fan art, of course, and I even created a community where you can share it:
the_art_of_mu. While this is an "official" place for it, you are by no means restricted to only putting it there. Put it up on your DeviantArt account. Share it on your own Livejournal. Add it to your personal online portfolio. Whatever. I just ask that if you're proud enough of your artwork to want people to see it, please submit it to the art community so that I cna see it, and if I find it awesome, point people to it. I can't draw. At all. I can barely picture things in my head. Someone says "picture a rocking horse", and I get the words "a rocking horse" in my head. So it's really neat to see how people envision my character. The icon on this post is from a piece of fan art.
My stance about fan fic at the beginning was "please don't", because unlike most professional authors, my work used the same medium and channels of distribution and promotion as fan fiction. Until I established a name and a presence for myself, it seemed entirely possible that a fan version could occlude the official continuity, or engender conclusion about who MU "really" belonged to. It's hard enough to convince some people that things created on the internet are Real Things in the same way that things printed out on paper are. That's no longer a concern, though, and hasn't been for a while.
(Some people might suggest that I missed an opportunity by telling people who wanted to write fan fic to please not... it's also entirely possible that if I'd said "Sure, feel free!" that I'd have caught a number of new readers from fan fic communities. It's possible, and I thought about it. I decided that the risk outweighed the reward.)