Fanfiction writers

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:13 pm

Feria wrote:
)v(ajin Koji wrote:They are as we write them ;¬ ]

The captions are if you still have them hosted.
Oh, yeah! I forgot those...

Yup, they're still on the net... I aven't added any new ones.. although, Savia's seen a few more of the new ones... which reminds me... MORE CAPTIONS!!! ^_^

I've actually done a few only my laptop last night ^_^

Feria · Post by **Feria** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:34 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:
Feria wrote:
)v(ajin Koji wrote:They are as we write them ;¬ ]

The captions are if you still have them hosted.
Oh, yeah! I forgot those...

Yup, they're still on the net... I aven't added any new ones.. although, Savia's seen a few more of the new ones... which reminds me... MORE CAPTIONS!!! ^_^
I've actually done a few only my laptop last night ^_^

Oooo, gimme gimme gimme

Blitzkrieg1701 · Post by **Blitzkrieg1701** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:48 pm

I've got quite a few Digimon fanfics floating around in place or another. I have a lot of trouble finding places to put them because most of them are almost original works thanks to the number of stuff I change (he said, quite loudly, just in case anyone who thinks fanfic writers lack originality are listening)

I Crimson Blade I · Post by **I Crimson Blade I** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:00 pm

both fanfictions and internet rpgs can intertwine if people RP properly, (the main reason why I stopped, too many noobs who make one sentence attacks.) I agained my Fanfiction writting skills there and eventually found that even if you take an original anime and make a fan fiction, that doesnt mean that you lack originality. If you look at the difference in which people write these fan fics, the orginality between them is enough. Even my old "post gundam wing" fanfic had some cliques, it still was branded orginal from the site I posted it on. And although I didnt make up the charaters of the gundam pilots, I did show how they had aged over a decade of peaceful times.

Mika Rieu · Post by **Mika Rieu** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:11 pm

I agree with I Crimson Blade I i too make my own stories, but i will sometimes write Fanfics. Though I have yet to post even one of my stories. A lot of people I know who have read them say they are original and well written. I plan to become a professional writter some day (though I have my spelling flaws ^^). And the rp relm which I used to RP on (Aynee) has gone down the drains due to noobs.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:12 pm

I neither RP nor write fanfics, though I like making up my own stuff.

Of course, I'm yet to produce anything actual or useful

Blitzkrieg1701 · Post by **Blitzkrieg1701** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:21 pm

Oh, how I identify with that statement (aside from the first part, obviously)

Yukina_Raven · Post by **Yukina_Raven** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:19 pm

Nestorath69 wrote:People who write fanfics have no true creativity. They're like self analysis- masturbation for the insecure. They should just stick to RPG's.

Oh, wait, RPG's are for people who don't know how to masturbate...

N/M

Ummm... yeah. Peace.

I take offense to this as well. Fanfics help me with my original stories. Plus, fanfics help improve my writing for the better stuff, my original works. I can post fanfics on the net and get reviews. Based on those, I can see what I need to improve on. I would put my original stories on the net, but then some jackass will steal them (even though they aren't too good). How can you express ANY creativity on the internet when people are out there constantly stealing it?

I Crimson Blade I · Post by **I Crimson Blade I** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:49 pm

well, legaly, if his/her story is very closely related to yours, then the copyright laws of the US protect the author by looking up when the story wass originally posted on the internet. If the situation became critical where they claim that You cpoied from Them, then the government, or hired agent, (can be self defended simply by looking up the information via web hoasting company) then you can claim yours came out first and that unless he/she can back it up, have to pay claims to you.

In other words, if yours came out first, and you cant prove that you did not read the others fic, your work is protected in the U.S. however, if a person from persay china or from a forign country with different or no existing cpoyright laws, they are void to these circumstances.

I personally havn't yet had a person who copied a fan fic from me, so I havn't need to use this tactic. But a friend of mine had a similar situation dealing with a story he was writting and the movie "the matrix" Certine things in them were the same, but his unfilished story came out first. However, they proved that th script was written long before the movie came out, therefor his story was orginal, but resembled anothers.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:42 pm

I started writing fanfiction shortly after I discovered anime - I found some 'stories' and thought they were from the actual anime. ^_^; I didn't know much about anime at the time, so I thought maybe they were translated text-only sections from the manga. That is how I ran into yaoi - straight into it. My roommate and I laughed for hours that night reading over a site worth of fics.

I started my own the next day. I've been writing since about 2000. So far I've had 3 translated into a different language for certain sites (2 into Spanish and one into Italian - I gave permission for the hosting) and 9 fics stolen, more if you include the ones where they take a single chapter of one of my fics and dub it a one-shot. But as it's been noted - fanfiction isn't like original fiction, so there's no harm done if someone wants to steal it. I've been writing stories since I was nine, so fanfiction comes naturally to me. And just for the people who say fanfiction means a lack of creativity - I've done a number of AU fics (alternate universe fics for the uninformed) that involve plots and worlds completely of my own creation. I actually submitted the first part of one in a college creative writing course and received an excellent response not only from the professor but the peer readers (my classmates - not that they were very good writers to begin with, but they were still english majors). And since it was an AU, the characters were very different from the ones in the anime - only certain aspects remained, while the story itself (and the world) was entirely mine. You can easily do a creative fanfic when you write AU's. And writing fanfiction in no way hurts your artistic nature - in Japan fanwork is legitimate - just look at the selling price for doujinshi (non-hentai) on ebay. Those are little more than illustrated fanfics (especially the ones that don't include constant sex ;p ).

Of course, I write yaoi fics. I don't do slash (which is actually only fics including *real* people - like book characters or movie actors - yaoi is anime alone). I've done a single non-yaoi fic which got a great response from that crowd, but my heart wasn't in it. It's just too boring to do something that everyone and his little sister is doing. Most of the stories I've done are nothing like fics I used to read. That's probably why I stopped reading fanfiction - depressing for the most part. I just stick to writing unless I know the author.

I write for a number of pairings but mostly for Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, Sorcerer Hunters, Earthian, Final Fantasy 7, Dragon Ball Z, Saiyuki, Rurouni Kenshin, Prince of Tennis, and then my multi-anime fics - the largest of which included some 20+ anime/game couples.

I love to write, and I watch anime for the characters. What could be more fun that writing about those characters? It's a hobby after all, so I'm out to enjoy it. For me, that means working with the anime instead of leaving it dead on the screen.