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The Butcher Block / Re: Your Episode Ideas Here
« on: December 19, 2006, 06:38:55 PM »
Quote from: iago on December 18, 2006, 08:01:07 PM
It's Skype, preferably, so whatever the limits are or aren't for that.  I wanna start out one-on-one, however it ends up.

Typically you can get about 6 people on skype without totally losing all the audio quality.  Also, the person with the best bandwidth needs to be the one doing the recording... but its always good to have a back up too.

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Author Craft / Re: Fanfiction - Good or Evil?
« on: June 29, 2006, 12:33:11 AM »
Quote from: Mickey Finn on June 26, 2006, 12:37:01 PM
That's being contracted by the owner of the rights to write something ineir universe. It's sort of the difference between being invited in by the owner of a house, or just wandering in and making yourself at home while they're out.

The premise is still you writing in someone else's world.  Not one that you have created of your own. 

Fanfiction has its purpose, it allows a fan to express their imagination... if they were to print on demand and sell their work rather than submitting it to a publishing house with the rights to that world, then yes.. that's the equivalent of stepping into someone's house and peeing on their furniture. 

But to write it and share it with other people in the fandom and not for profit, that is more a developmental exercise than flagrantly stepping on an author's toes.

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Author Craft / Re: Fanfiction - Good or Evil?
« on: June 26, 2006, 02:07:52 AM »
I know a lot of people who have written fanfic and gone on to do their own original works.  I mean think about how many different authors write X-men and Star Trek novels and get them published.  Isn't that a form of fanfiction as well?

I figure as long as a person is writing and improving its not a bad thing at all.  I know that some authors are bothered by it, but in my mind imitation is the greatest form of flattery.. and to be so inspired by characters that have been created to continue their stories is a great compliment to the author that dreamed them up.  If they are so vivid that they so capture the imagination, then how can that be a bad thing?


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