Whoooa CLLOP

I was writing for a "Romance" Online stores..
In short Clop fics with "Sci fi and Shapeshifters"
you know the drill...

Well one of the writers there called Remittance Girl wrote a blog about Fan Fics (she's for it)
Here's what she wrote:

" I just had a really compelling conversation on twitter about fanfic. It all started when I found this tumblr post by the lovely Cecilia Ryan.
For some reason, this part of the post enraged me:
ladylovesgrimm:

I do NOT like fanfic. Leave the story writing to the professionals on the shows. As someone who writes for a living, I find it insulting that fans think they are better at what I do than I am. There’s a reason I’m paid and you… are not."

W:ow I must say.. What a Well never mind.. But Remittance was not happy with what Cecilia wrote... She replied ...
"It pissed me off in about a hundred different ways. I won’t enumerate all of them, but here’s a few:
How did those professionals GET to be professionals. Were they born that way?
Does she even know that those ‘professionals’ on television shows base their episodes on a ‘story bible’ that they didn’t write. In effect, most episodic tv writers ARE writing fanfic.
She’s insulted that her fans want to write? That her writing inspires them to write? That her characters or her storyworld fires their imaginations? Wow. I guess people can get offended at anything these days.
What an arrogant and unpleasant bitch."
She goes on and points out that all the stories are kinda been done for...
"every rags to riches romance you ever read has its feet firmly rooted in Cinderella. Every star-crossed-lovers story owes a debt of gratitude to Shakespeare.
And was Shakespeare’s King Lear devalued because Akira Kurosawa made ‘Ran‘?
And did Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Seven Samurai‘ lose anything when John Sturges made ‘The Magnificent Seven‘?
Did Buffy the Vampire Slayer become a less valuable product once someone wrote a piece of smutty fanfic about her doing Angel, or better yet, a bondage scene with Spike? Frankly, if you hadn’t imagined that in your own head, already, you weren’t enough of a fan. Do you really think Joss Whedon lost a penny of advertising or video sales because of the fanfic that’s been written about his creation?
Will we forever think of ‘Harry Potter’ as a deviant slut because someone wrote fanfic about him getting it from behind courtesy of Severus Snape?
Is anyone going to hesitate to buy another ‘Twilight‘ novel because E.L. James changed her name and stuck her in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’?
If you really think that ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies‘ wouldn’t have put a huge smile on Jane Austen’s face, then you aren’t a very big fan of Austen. That woman had a wicked sense of humour. She would have loved it."
After all that .. she ends on a nice note <3
"Fanfic is, for the most part, an act of genuine love by fans who paid enough attention and cherished the original enough to be able to produce the fanfic."

How true... Now lets get to work and Make more Clop fics :-)

Comments

[totallynotabrony]

I don't write clop becuase I'd rather write about things blowing up