tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post4849238427059634401..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: allow me to write of other people's experiencesUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-20969925669783642882015-03-22T03:09:42.998+11:002015-03-22T03:09:42.998+11:00I haven't read it, but I imagine that the poor...I haven't read it, but I imagine that the poor character thought he'd do better with a professional cast. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-81632912652653769782015-03-20T15:41:03.614+11:002015-03-20T15:41:03.614+11:00In Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds - pub...In Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds - published in 1940 - a character, Dermot Trellis, a character in a novel being written by the hero, practises the ultimate logic of fanfic. He is writing a novel and conscripts characters from other novels to serve as his characters.<br />It all goes wrong, of course.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-47796387600397025312015-03-19T05:26:51.217+11:002015-03-19T05:26:51.217+11:00(This is all fairly rhetorical, by the way.)(This is all fairly rhetorical, by the way.)Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-38241696710225319772015-03-19T05:26:17.799+11:002015-03-19T05:26:17.799+11:00I suppose you'd feel compelled to explain them...I suppose you'd feel compelled to explain them, if they weren't already established characters, you'd want to say, "Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich man who owned ..." -- etc etc -- "and had a friend named Bingley" -- instead of plain "Mr Darcy walked into the room" but, aside from that, I'm wondering about the way that fictional-person fanfic is segregated away from what you could call real-person fanfic. Why don't we say that <i>The Man Who Loved Children</i> is Christina Stead's father fanfic, when we know that the father in the book 'is' her father? (I'm not arguing that we should, only pointing out that we don't.) Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-45448768366344321422015-03-17T16:08:34.213+11:002015-03-17T16:08:34.213+11:00Of course, I usually hear about the Jane Austen on...Of course, I usually hear about the Jane Austen ones - and have to read a couple for my JA Group but I avoid them like the plague.<br /><br />Hmm, would the writing be different? I'm not sure, but at least it would be new characters to the readers, so it would then rely on the quality of the writing because they couldn't rely on pre-interest in the characters?Whispering Gumshttp://whisperinggums.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-4886432956263381362015-03-17T11:01:53.247+11:002015-03-17T11:01:53.247+11:00Harry Potter fanfics are the ones I usually hear a...Harry Potter fanfics are the ones I usually hear about. But there's a thought: if the people who write fanfic ever decided to rewrite the lives of real people as well -- their friends -- would the writing be very different?Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-13935993097559734782015-03-16T20:12:16.803+11:002015-03-16T20:12:16.803+11:00Haha, DKS, love your description of readers/writer...Haha, DKS, love your description of readers/writers of fanfic. It's an intriguing thing and clearly has something to do with "how" or "why" we read. Those who love fanfic are, I guess, those who also love to read those long fantasy series. I, on the other hand, get bored. I want new characters and new pastures AND yet, in my "actual" life I hang onto friends, I do want to know them forever! Sorry, I've rambled but that's what you do to me - spear me off onto some little tangent.Whispering Gumshttp://whisperinggums.comnoreply@blogger.com