Re: Fan fiction in general was: MOVED from MAIN - "sequels" to the classics

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "coriandra2002" 
<coriandra2002 at ...> wrote:
>
> If any of you are or hope to be published writers (as I do sometime in
> the future) how would you feel about fan fiction writing in your 
universe?
> 
> My position would be: don't ask don't tell.  I'd rather not have
> people killing off my characters or writing slash or incest stories
> about them.  But because there's so little control over that on the
> internet, I'd try to encourage good writing by linking some high
> quality archives to my website and try to ignore the more tawdry ones.
>

Tonks: 
I too hope to be a writer. Mostly non-fiction, but I might try my hand 
at fiction too. I am told that I tell a good tale. I know my position 
will not win me many friends here, but then my robes have been singed 
so many times by other things that I have said here why should I care 
now. ;-)

I do not like fanfiction. I don't read it, and I don't write it. My 
view is that fanfiction is a lot like playing a game and cheating. 
There is no glory in winning that way. I think that people should use 
their own imagination and make their own characters, etc. I have read 
some of the HP fanfiction just to see what it was. I really hate 
reading about Hermione being raped by the death eater, etc. and all of 
the rest of these takeoffs on the real story. (I will admit that I did 
like some of the het stories about Snape. But then, who wouldn't?) I 
don't want Rowling's view of her world compromised by fanfiction. After 
awhile it would be hard to remember what was in the original and what 
was somewhere else. I just think that fanfiction is the lazy way out of 
being a writer. It might be OK for people to experiment when learning 
to write, I guess... but I don't know. Better to use you own imagiation 
and see where it takes you. I think a writer should have enough faith 
in themself to just make up their own world and go from there. We all 
did it as young children. Just set your inner-child free. The world is 
waiting for you!

Tonks_op