It's a waste of time; you should be learning how to become a Real Writer!
When someone says that, I wonder what they're selling; because as far as I know, the only way to become a writer is to write, and it doesn't really matter what genre you're writing in, only that you keep improving and learning and trying new things.
It's totally different if the author is dead!
Yes, because if it's such a disrespectful and immoral thing to do, it's so much better to do it over someone's dead body!
How would you feel if somebody wrote fanfic about YOUR story?
I suspect this question really means 'if someone wrote fanfic you didn't like.' And the answer is: I would be more OK with that than I would be with trying to prevent people from writing fanfic. Of course I've read fanfic I disliked and disapproved of - fanfic involves expressing opinions about works, and not everyone's opinion is the same as mine - but that doesn't mean I think they shouldn't have written it, or had an opinion in the first place.
It's like you came by my house and stole my car!
And yet, somehow, you still seem to have your car. And your creation.
You have to think of the children!
When I was nine I wrote a My Little Pony/Silver Brumby crossover, and it was unintentionally hilarious. When I was fifteen, I went to my parents and said "I want to read erotica on the internet. Do I have your permission?" and they said yes, because they had brought me up as well as they could, and trusted my maturity and ability to choose suitable reading material - just as I trusted them enough to ask them. And it didn't do me any harm - in fact, it gave me a community that I love and am still involved in over ten years later.
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When someone says that, I wonder what they're selling; because as far as I know, the only way to become a writer is to write, and it doesn't really matter what genre you're writing in, only that you keep improving and learning and trying new things.
It's totally different if the author is dead!
Yes, because if it's such a disrespectful and immoral thing to do, it's so much better to do it over someone's dead body!
How would you feel if somebody wrote fanfic about YOUR story?
I suspect this question really means 'if someone wrote fanfic you didn't like.' And the answer is: I would be more OK with that than I would be with trying to prevent people from writing fanfic. Of course I've read fanfic I disliked and disapproved of - fanfic involves expressing opinions about works, and not everyone's opinion is the same as mine - but that doesn't mean I think they shouldn't have written it, or had an opinion in the first place.
It's like you came by my house and stole my car!
And yet, somehow, you still seem to have your car. And your creation.
You have to think of the children!
When I was nine I wrote a My Little Pony/Silver Brumby crossover, and it was unintentionally hilarious. When I was fifteen, I went to my parents and said "I want to read erotica on the internet. Do I have your permission?" and they said yes, because they had brought me up as well as they could, and trusted my maturity and ability to choose suitable reading material - just as I trusted them enough to ask them. And it didn't do me any harm - in fact, it gave me a community that I love and am still involved in over ten years later.