The biggest example I can think of an original writer who dislikes fan fic is Anne Rice. While someone like Joss Whedon openly encourages it, even especially when it reads into the subtext.
There might be a gender element in this, then, although I don't have a sample size any larger than that to base this on (I don't know, for example, JK Rowling's feelings on HP stuff).
Speaking personally, if someone were to start fanficing my own original work, I'd be torn between my insistence on my own authority as original author, and feeling really, really flattered someone liked my work enough to take the time to enter/expand on that world themselves. I think I'd be of the opinion that if I don't like what they're doing to my story, I don't have to read it, or acknowledge it in any way.
What I do know is that given the current level of video/computer technology, fiction and words on a page is still the most flexible medium there is, and therefore the most likely to deviate from the original.
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Date: 2005-07-10 12:59 am (UTC)There might be a gender element in this, then, although I don't have a sample size any larger than that to base this on (I don't know, for example, JK Rowling's feelings on HP stuff).
Speaking personally, if someone were to start fanficing my own original work, I'd be torn between my insistence on my own authority as original author, and feeling really, really flattered someone liked my work enough to take the time to enter/expand on that world themselves. I think I'd be of the opinion that if I don't like what they're doing to my story, I don't have to read it, or acknowledge it in any way.
What I do know is that given the current level of video/computer technology, fiction and words on a page is still the most flexible medium there is, and therefore the most likely to deviate from the original.