Yeah, how much you could interact with your own fandom is a question. And I agree, it is disheartening if someone else anticipates your plotpoints, and would be moreso if it were your original work...otoh, it's pretty rare for a book to spawn a massive fandom (HP is the exception, not the rule) so it's not something I really consider. I don't think I'd read longer fic based on my (original) stuff (unless it was a one-shot book or finished series, then it'd be open season!) but short stuff is unlikely to be that similar.
I'm also thinking somewhat of anime fandoms, where pro mangakas coming up through doujinshi is established and quite a few of them keep making doujinshi even once they're pro - and sometimes dj of their own series, even - and I know of mangaka who have outright requested that fans send them dj (I remember the author of Fushigi Yuugi had a note in one volume wondering something like why there wasn't more Tama/Tasuki yaoi and could she see it if there was!) Japanese fandom works very differently from Western fandom, but if they can negotiate it, there's gotta be a way for us to!
Trying to choose between them is like choosing between science fiction and mystery -- they're not the same, but one of them isn't less.
Yes, exactly - fanfic is akin to being a genre of fiction, and while it's perfectly understandable if you prefer some genres over others, but if you try to argue that one genre is innately objectively superior to another...you're probably wrong. :P
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Date: 2010-05-14 09:19 pm (UTC)I'm also thinking somewhat of anime fandoms, where pro mangakas coming up through doujinshi is established and quite a few of them keep making doujinshi even once they're pro - and sometimes dj of their own series, even - and I know of mangaka who have outright requested that fans send them dj (I remember the author of Fushigi Yuugi had a note in one volume wondering something like why there wasn't more Tama/Tasuki yaoi and could she see it if there was!) Japanese fandom works very differently from Western fandom, but if they can negotiate it, there's gotta be a way for us to!
Trying to choose between them is like choosing between science fiction and mystery -- they're not the same, but one of them isn't less.
Yes, exactly - fanfic is akin to being a genre of fiction, and while it's perfectly understandable if you prefer some genres over others, but if you try to argue that one genre is innately objectively superior to another...you're probably wrong. :P