An author on fan fiction

[PennLady]

Found this on Slate.com: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...howey_on_fan_fiction_and_kurt_vonnegut.2.html

It's by Hugh Howey, who wrote an sf story called "Wool" that has done well for him on Amazon. I thought it was just an interesting take on fan fiction, and interesting to hear from an author about it.

In the article, Howey says that he not only gave approval to people who asked about writing fan fiction for his story, but encouraged them to put it up for sale. And he talks about writing some fan fic of his own.

 

[LadyVer]

I subscribe to Howey's blog. He had an interesting post about the publishing industry recently. I haven't read any of his stories yet. I think I have a free story of his sitting in my email inbox somewhere... Finding the time to read it is the problem.

 

[PennLady]

I subscribe to Howey's blog. He had an interesting post about the publishing industry recently. I haven't read any of his stories yet. I think I have a free story of his sitting in my email inbox somewhere... Finding the time to read it is the problem.

I read "Wool," or the first part of it anyway, after getting it from Amazon. I thought it was an intriguing premise, and depending on any birthday presents I might get I may get more of it.

But I thought his take on fan fiction was interesting, anyway. It's on my radar because my son is a big fan of Yu-gi-oh, and of Suzanne Collins' "Underland Chronicles," and has discovered some fan fiction of both, and was talking to me last night about writing stories. He says he wants to write his own Underland Chronicle fan fiction.

He also wants me to write him some kind of adventure-magic-dragon story. Still trying to work that out.

 

[Handley_Page]

I read "Wool," or the first part of it anyway, after getting it from Amazon. I thought it was an intriguing premise, and depending on any birthday presents I might get I may get more of it.

But I thought his take on fan fiction was interesting, anyway. It's on my radar because my son is a big fan of Yu-gi-oh, and of Suzanne Collins' "Underland Chronicles," and has discovered some fan fiction of both, and was talking to me last night about writing stories. He says he wants to write his own Underland Chronicle fan fiction.

He also wants me to write him some kind of adventure-magic-dragon story. Still trying to work that out.

Please don't make the Dragon an automatically evil character.
They get too much bad press as it is.
[signed Eli Cholmondely, Pres, Soc. Dragons]

 

[Stella_Omega]

He expresses his idea in exactly the way I've always seen it;

What we are approaching now is a return to the storytelling of old. We are marching back to a world of stories in the ether, a world where bards speak once again to a live audience and are able to gauge their reactions, a world where we may learn and adjust our craft on the fly. We are getting back to a time when the audience and the storyteller enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, when a fan could become an artist, when the listener might go on to speak for themselves.

This is the story I see unfolding before us. I see a return to campfires and caves and sharing. I see stories that will grow and become timeless not because they were stamped in a press but because they bear the stamp of us. This is a message of tolerance and acceptance that I hope will spread. Pass it along if you care. Feel free to give it your own twist. I won’t mind at all.

Yesssss.

And also, fanfiction spawns something called "headcanon" which can be a fertile field for creativity, thusly;
http://thecolossalennui.tumblr.com/post/73349845547/starwhalesinthesky-thus-the-muses-spake-jk

I know most of us are less interested in gender issues than, say, me -- but look at how many directions this conversation took that particular subject!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

He expresses his idea in exactly the way I've always seen it;
Yesssss.

And also, fanfiction spawns something called "headcanon" which can be a fertile field for creativity, thusly;
http://thecolossalennui.tumblr.com/post/73349845547/starwhalesinthesky-thus-the-muses-spake-jk

I know most of us are less interested in gender issues than, say, me -- but look at how many directions this conversation took that particular subject!

Naaah. Ninety percent of us think a story is when an asshole steals our parking space at WALMART or the neighbors dog shits on our lawn. We read at the 8th grade level, and our maturation ends at the 8th grade. Its why WAR & PEACE is the best story ever written, and the least read.

 

[Acktion]

Please don't make the Dragon an automatically evil character.
They get too much bad press as it is.
[signed Eli Cholmondely, Pres, Soc. Dragons]

Wait, what? What did I miss?! Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern were EVIL?!

But what about the Gold, Silver and Bronze dragons from the Dragonlance Chronicles that joined the war to offset the Red, Blue, Black, White, and Green evil dragons?

And that beautiful silver dragon that stole Huma's heart in "Legend of Huma"? *sniff*

 

[Handley_Page]

Wait, what? What did I miss?! Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern were EVIL?!

But what about the Gold, Silver and Bronze dragons from the Dragonlance Chronicles that joined the war to offset the Red, Blue, Black, White, and Green evil dragons?

And that beautiful silver dragon that stole Huma's heart in "Legend of Huma"? *sniff*

I confess to having forgotten the Pernese Dragons; those superior beings of, sadly, fiction.
And I ignored the dragons created by Terry Pratchett, to my shame (see 'Guards, Guards').

But it always seems to me that the dragons normally encountered are not good.

PS.
I got to get a copy of the Legend of Huma. . .