He wrote fan fiction and went on to write his own 200-page fantasy story.
Martin ("A Song of Ice and Fire") dismisses fan fiction as "unauthorized, derivative" work.
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The movie delivers the kind of pleasures usually reserved for fan fiction or playground stand-offs.
As both a writer and a reader, Coppa said she appreciates the freedom fan fiction offers.
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Fan fiction is essentially stories about original works written by fans, rather than by the original creator.
It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters.
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Club Penguin fan fiction and lore are continually being generated from player-run blogs, discussions within the playspace, YouTube, and social media.
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"Sometimes fan fiction is about seeing more of a character, " Coppa said.
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Fan fiction grew popular in the 1960s thanks to "Star Trek" as fans developed their own story lines to swap with other devotees.
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L. James wrote the precursor to Fifty Shades of Grey online as fan fiction and self-published it on her own website before Vintage acquired it.
"A lot of erotic (fan fiction) is actually queer, " Coppa said.
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Of the use of characters from a novel in fan fiction.
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And while the early "Twilight" novels were decidedly chaste (at first, anyway), writers of fan fiction will tell you there's a huge desire for erotic novels.
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Annie Proulx has said that fan fiction inspired by her "Brokeback Mountain" is written by people who don't understand either the original story or intellectual property rights.
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But not all authors are on board with fan fiction.
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Like a gun, charm can be deployed as a form of protection or as a destructive force: you never want your favorite series to become fan fiction about itself.
Most fan fiction is published on the Internet (see fanfiction.net), and it's usually preceded by disclaimers noting that the writer is using characters or settings from someone else's work.
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Because the law focuses on the making of copies, it has become embroiled in regulating a bewildering array of non-commercial activities fan fiction, amateur mash-ups, BitTorrent file-sharing that have sprung up online.
To Michael Chabon, all fiction is fan fiction.
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However, not all fan fiction is erotic.
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The case provides a good opportunity to review the laws relating to the protection of fictional characters which implicate unauthorized sequels and adaptations of existing works, the popular and widespread subculture of fan fiction, and many other applications.
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She has a reputation for reserve: for being likable but shy and thin-skinned, and not at all comfortable with the personal impact of having created a modern myth, sold four hundred and fifty million books, and inspired more than six hundred thousand pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction, a total that increases by at least a thousand stories a week.
And then the fan-fiction professor got up and began to make direct references to "The Man" who had commodified Potter.
Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
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Ebert covered high school sports for a local paper at age 15 while also writing and editing his own science fiction fan magazine.
His fan base is so loyal that many of his grown-up fans have migrated to his young-adult fiction, Mr. Coben and his publisher say.
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