Thank you for letting me know you plan to say nothing more.
Austen fanfiction references. The term fanfiction by definition references an original source. So, in commenting upon fanfiction, one is always assessing how well the fanfiction understood and interpreted the original. Otherwise, it would not be fanfiction for that particular source. It would be a random, perhaps half-witted comment by someone who either did not understand the original or had little respect for it.
In my original comment on this subtopic, I suggested that if we were using the statement that Charles Musgrove could have been a better man with a better wife, that was NOT a strong enough reason to see Charles and Anne married. I was not offering some blanket comment on the story Nikki wrote, although Suzanne attempted to make it into that.
As for waving the patriotic flag on the sacredness of all fanfiction and how writers may say whatever they want, yeah, sure.
Suzanne O Wrote:
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> If you would like to engage in a discussion on the
> original book, I would be happy to do that. But
> the majority of fan-fiction involves writing
> stories about things that didn't happen in the
> books and that, one could certainly argue, never
> would have. I myself wrote a book about a scenario
> I think never could have actually happened
> with the characters as written by Austen (that is,
> Elizabeth accepting Darcy's first proposal), but
> to just leave it at that is to leave the question
> unanswered, the story untold. Everything we write
> in fan-fiction is speculative, everything is a
> reflection of our personal interpretations of
> these characters, with our own ideas and interests
> added in to make something new that, while it is
> influenced and related to Austen's work, is not
> Austen's work. We all have opinions on what we
> like and don't like and what we find more or less
> believable (and very often disagree), but we're
> all just borrowing, cannibalizing, taking
> liberties with characters and stories not our own
> and which, in the end, have never been real in the
> first place. What emerges in the end, though, are
> unique stories that I think should be able to be
> judged on their own merit, and not just by how
> close they stick to their mother-novel. If
> fidelity to the original is our only concern, we
> really shouldn't be reading fan-fiction to the
> first place, as by definition it has to be
> different.
>
> And, because I truly have no desire to engage in
> more back-and-forth with you, I think that's all I
> have to say on this subject.
Austen fanfiction references. The term fanfiction by definition references an original source. So, in commenting upon fanfiction, one is always assessing how well the fanfiction understood and interpreted the original. Otherwise, it would not be fanfiction for that particular source. It would be a random, perhaps half-witted comment by someone who either did not understand the original or had little respect for it.
In my original comment on this subtopic, I suggested that if we were using the statement that Charles Musgrove could have been a better man with a better wife, that was NOT a strong enough reason to see Charles and Anne married. I was not offering some blanket comment on the story Nikki wrote, although Suzanne attempted to make it into that.
As for waving the patriotic flag on the sacredness of all fanfiction and how writers may say whatever they want, yeah, sure.
Suzanne O Wrote:
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> If you would like to engage in a discussion on the
> original book, I would be happy to do that. But
> the majority of fan-fiction involves writing
> stories about things that didn't happen in the
> books and that, one could certainly argue, never
> would have. I myself wrote a book about a scenario
> I think never could have actually happened
> with the characters as written by Austen (that is,
> Elizabeth accepting Darcy's first proposal), but
> to just leave it at that is to leave the question
> unanswered, the story untold. Everything we write
> in fan-fiction is speculative, everything is a
> reflection of our personal interpretations of
> these characters, with our own ideas and interests
> added in to make something new that, while it is
> influenced and related to Austen's work, is not
> Austen's work. We all have opinions on what we
> like and don't like and what we find more or less
> believable (and very often disagree), but we're
> all just borrowing, cannibalizing, taking
> liberties with characters and stories not our own
> and which, in the end, have never been real in the
> first place. What emerges in the end, though, are
> unique stories that I think should be able to be
> judged on their own merit, and not just by how
> close they stick to their mother-novel. If
> fidelity to the original is our only concern, we
> really shouldn't be reading fan-fiction to the
> first place, as by definition it has to be
> different.
>
> And, because I truly have no desire to engage in
> more back-and-forth with you, I think that's all I
> have to say on this subject.