Comments on: Struck by Orson Scott Card’s rancor about fanfiction… http://www.adelejournal.com/2010/03/struck-by-orson-scott-cards-rancor-about-fanfiction/ Writing & marketing resources for authors of romance, erotica, pulp, and other adult-oriented genres. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: How writing fanfiction can help you become a better storyteller. http://www.adelejournal.com/2010/03/struck-by-orson-scott-cards-rancor-about-fanfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-1934 How writing fanfiction can help you become a better storyteller. Sat, 01 May 2010 17:32:35 +0000 http://www.adelejournal.com/?p=505#comment-1934 [...] some writers don’t think writing fanfiction has any benefit, I disagree. Thoughtfully writing fanfiction [...] [...] some writers don’t think writing fanfiction has any benefit, I disagree. Thoughtfully writing fanfiction [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.adelejournal.com/2010/03/struck-by-orson-scott-cards-rancor-about-fanfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-1436 admin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:48:41 +0000 http://www.adelejournal.com/?p=505#comment-1436 I'm not denying him the right to his opinion, and the law is, technically, on his side. But I take issue with him saying "you will never do your best work in someone else's universe." Some people *only* write fanfiction. It's often a totally different impulse than writing original material. I'm not even in the fanfiction community, but I am an electronic musician, and I know that many artists of all kinds thrive on restrictions and limitations. Many cover songs are better than the original implementations -- same goes for remixes. I’m not denying him the right to his opinion, and the law is, technically, on his side. But I take issue with him saying “you will never do your best work in someone else’s universe.” Some people *only* write fanfiction. It’s often a totally different impulse than writing original material.

I’m not even in the fanfiction community, but I am an electronic musician, and I know that many artists of all kinds thrive on restrictions and limitations. Many cover songs are better than the original implementations — same goes for remixes.

]]> By: delagar http://www.adelejournal.com/2010/03/struck-by-orson-scott-cards-rancor-about-fanfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 delagar Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:25:06 +0000 http://www.adelejournal.com/?p=505#comment-1433 See, yeah, you're into the IOKIYAR area there... It's okay if HE does it, because HE did it. It's not okay if you did it, because you're not HIM. You just have to understand the patriarchal/authoritarian worldview and it all falls into place. Like with smacking around the wife or the kids (not that OSC would do this, but it's a similar thing): dad can hit the wife or the kids, but they can't hit back. Wife can hit the kids; kids can't hit back. Dad can tell wife and kids what to do; the wife can give orders to the kids; so on. It only goes one way. OSC can do thing that are not all right for those below him in God's Great Chain of being. That's how the universe is arranged, b/c that's how God arranged it. It all makes perfect sense, in the Marsworld in which he lives. See, yeah, you’re into the IOKIYAR area there…

It’s okay if HE does it, because HE did it. It’s not okay if you did it, because you’re not HIM. You just have to understand the patriarchal/authoritarian worldview and it all falls into place.

Like with smacking around the wife or the kids (not that OSC would do this, but it’s a similar thing): dad can hit the wife or the kids, but they can’t hit back. Wife can hit the kids; kids can’t hit back. Dad can tell wife and kids what to do; the wife can give orders to the kids; so on. It only goes one way.

OSC can do thing that are not all right for those below him in God’s Great Chain of being. That’s how the universe is arranged, b/c that’s how God arranged it. It all makes perfect sense, in the Marsworld in which he lives.

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