Wilde_Guess

I’m not an admin, but I might be able to help. You won’t be able to reset your password unless and until @manta2g unlocks your account and causes the system to send you a “reset password link.” So, if you were trying to “jump the line,” it won’t work. If you got a “invalid password reset link” error message from the link manta2g caused to be sent to you, one or two other users have had the same problem. Either way, can you be a little more clear on exactly what you did and what happened, especially including any error messages? @BronxWench or @WillowDarkling might have some insights on what you can try. Thanks in advance, and good luck.

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Hi, Desiderius Price and all. Definitely so. More than a few “Harry/Hermione shippers” believe that JKR had laid the groundwork out for that ship in canon. I didn’t see it in the books, and the movie actually hinted at the Ron/Hermione dating relationship that ultimately took place. And, like you said, we the reader never really saw that much of Ginny building a relationship with Harry until it showed up mostly formed. JKR gave us all a brilliant sandbox to play in, but she did leave a splinter or two in the edge boards. And, don’t get me started about Hermione being white growing up and having kids, then suddenly turning Black because JKR liked Norma Dumezweni’s acting. JKR never said what race Hermione was in the books. But in the movies, which are also canon, and where JKR had veto power over all casting decisions, she chose the decidedly anglo Emma Watson to play Hermione. I have a “two or three shot” I might post about Hermione turning herself Black a-la John Howard Griffin for semi-political purposes with a combination of potions and ritual without telling or asking anyone first, only to accidentally turn her children and parents Black too, and also get thoroughly lambasted by her sister-in-law Angelina, who actually was born Black before she sets things back to right with a lot of help from Ron. It’s JKR’s sandbox, and she can do what she wants with it. I, in turn, can politely express the opinion that she made a silly and needless blunder. As for people speculating in error where the seven-book series was going to go, that was actually more or less good mystery writing, since part of the overall story type for the seven-book series was mystery. She left the clues where she needed to leave them, and once you got to the point where “new revelations” happened, you could see her laying the groundwork. And Alan Rickman deserves more than a little credit for not ‘blabbing’ where the story was going. Remember, he insisted on knowing the entire series, “spoilers” and all, before agreeing to play Severus Snape. Cheers!

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I’m guessing that it’s alphabetical after using fellow Admins and Mods as test subjects. Is that alphabetical by email or screen name? Or something else completely? Thanks in advance.

Episode TV, or episodic fiction in general, is actually one of the few places where a fanfic author isn’t automatically writing “alternative universe.” Before the Harry Potter series got big, and made fanfiction bigger, the two “biggies” were the Star Wars and Star Trek series. With all the “extra” stories Lucas licensed pre-Disney, and with Star Trek being episode TV, you couldn’t tell a lot of the best “fanfiction” from authorized and truly canon stories.

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Hi, Deadman and all. Not really. The better fanfics out there provide interesting counters to canon, and if the canon itself is good, allows for the better appreciation of both. As for what I write beyond what’s posted here, I tend to write “slice-of-life,” “Peggy-Sue” (never to be confused with Mary Sue,) and crossovers. By their very nature, those types of stories are not usually written by the “original” authors. But, even in commercial-land; crossovers, and even character migration can and do happen. And hopefully “Wide Stance” also enjoys this discussion, once they catch up with the tag. 😜 (I’ve done it too, and I’m laughing with you...) Cheers!

Sessakag wrote: Furthest thing from my mind, trust me. 🙃

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This is beyond horrible that this “publishing house” got away with as much as they did. In a fanfic or “derived work,” there are two entities who deserve credit and payment for the work; the author of the “original” work or universe, and the author of the derived/fanfiction work. Full stop. With original fiction, the sole entity entitled to credit and payment is the author of the work. Doing what “Plush House” did is theft, pure and simple. They should be criminally charged for it, and if convicted at trial should have everything taken from them. There is certainly some legal doubt on who should be paid for fanfiction written without a license issued in advance by the original content creator. However, there is no doubt that whomever should get the money, “Plush House” is not and never was it. For the original works, there’s no doubt at all whatsoever. Many people here have either received stacks of form-rejection letters personally, at least looked into vanity publishing, or both; and the rest of us have read of your travails in these forum posts. Plush House have stolen. They are thieves. If they had stuck to cook books, then perhaps they could have made money quietly from the “Internet semi-lazy.” Just get someone with a spatula and a word processor for editing and pizazz, and have at it. Hell, I could have worked for them doing that, at least with some cuisine types. If you publish it on the Internet, it isn’t really a “secret recipe” any more. And, a talented cook and writer can change it up just enough to call it their own. If you know how to cook, I’ve already posted a “secret recipe” in passing, and it’s just waiting to be made in your kitchen. But, being the lazy over-achievers they allegedly are, they didn’t even bother to get releases or even offer token payment. A plague upon their [publishing] house!

Hi, Deadman and all. You aren’t feeling nearly as opposite as you might think. Fanfiction by its very nature is the fanfic author telling a story the original author didn’t see fit to tell, however much of the original author’s universe you preserve in your own. Likewise, if you read a fanfic where the author took too many liberties in their own storytelling, that can also inspire you to pick up the pen as you’ve done. You’re not the only one to start writing fanfiction as a defense against fanfiction that didn’t quite do the job for you. When specifically writing erotic or pornographic fanfic literature, you (or any author) needs to overcome their own internal limits in order to make their writing readable. Your own personal “internal challenges” differ from others’ only in the details. In order to write readable prose, you must be emotionally attached to your characters, and cannot write well if you are not; whether writing erotic literature, pornographic literature, or non-erotic literature. If you’re connected with your characters and your story, you have a greater chance of connecting with the reader. Likewise, if you’re already fully connected with your reader, such as Wilbert Audrey when he first started writing the Thomas the Tank Engine series, you will quickly connect with your characters if you’re any good at all. If you imagination doesn’t go “far enough” to be able to form a “live” image from a manga, anime, or cartoon drawing of a character, that’s fine. You still have plenty to write about. Likewise, if you can’t figure out where all the “extra tentacles” go, that’s also fine. Usagi-Chan is extremely grateful for that, even if some potential readers might be disappointed. Your imagination for what you choose to imagine should be more than sufficient to entertain your readers. If it isn’t, the “next” key works just as well for them as it does for you. And if it really works for them, there is Patreon and Ko-fi, if you can’t quite go mainstream with your writing. “Wilde Guess” isn’t even my “regular” nom de plume. I use it mostly for any writing I do that is sexually explicit, erotic, homoerotic, etc. As for your reason to start writing fanfiction, that’s really close to why I started Third Time’s A Soul Bond. I was totally and thoroughly sick of poorly written, unexplainable-in-canon, and frankly insane slash pairings in HP fanfiction. Seeing very few examples of “semi-logical” slash parings, I created this pen-name just to write that story. On “St. Elsewhere.net,” it’s actually the longest story with that particular pairing. I’ve received fewer reviews on the entire story than a single chapter of the “typical” SS/DM spit-roast of the Boy Who Lived. Oh, well... Riding the Lincoln Way was originally a one shot to cleanse the mental palate from some “train-wreck-bad” “spank-kink” junk I’d encountered in passing. But instead of just posting the junk, I started asking questions. That’s never a smart thing when you expected less than five thousand words total, and thus have no outline to defend yourself from the plot bunnies putting on harness and towing your story out to places you never thought it would go. Hey Joe was the continuation in both directions of two throw-away example scene snippets I wrote in a forum post. Once again, no “outline shield.” To answer @GeorgeGlass’s post directly: I agree with 1. and 3. completely, except for if I’m writing a crack/bash/parody, then 1. will be broken by the very nature of what I’m writing. 2. doesn’t bother me so much. When I’m writing fiction, I envision the fictional character exclusively, even if the character was portrayed in film or television. In the Potterverse, I write about Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Severus Snape, etc; not Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, or Alan Rickman. Likewise if my original fiction has historical or modern real people characters, they will never be “main” characters, and anything they do do will either be their historical actions, or non-defamatory actions they would likely have logically taken had the entire story been real life. So, if a group of musically talented kids get some help from a real-life rock star, that’s because had the kids existed in real life, the rock star in question would have helped them. Of course, if I need a fictional character to hold a real-life position somewhere, “Mr. Real Life” never existed, and the fictional character will not resemble “Mr. Real Life” in any way at all whatsoever other than having turfed them out of their jobs and (fictional) existence. This, of course, is just one of many challenges when you insert fictional characters into real-life locations and times, and why its done, but done very very sparingly on the commercial front. But it can be done without legal or other life-changing adverse consequences, as can be witnessed to by Mario Puzo or Allen Drury. Cheers!

What makes me write some fanfiction in some genres but not others? In the end, whether the story I write is NC-17+ or SFW, I have to be able to find a story to tell in that genre. But how do I get there? I have to like the fandom(s) involved, and understand the canon of the fandom(s) enough so that my “changes” make some degree of sense in that universe. Or, I need to loathe the fandom(s) so completely that I will gladly write a story to destroy it. If I’m writing a crack/parody story, I need to understand the trope, genre, or fandom enough to lambaste it properly, and have fun while I’m doing it. After all, you’re probably winning no friends writing Mickey Spillane’s Sponge Bob Square-Pants on the Docks or My Little Pony Vacation—All Knackered Out at Pete’s in Todmorden, so you’d better at least be having a good time with all the enemies you’ll make. In some cases, you can write a “crack” fic, a porn-fest, and a true drama in the same fiction universe at the same time. An example in the School Days fandom would be The Nice-Boating News, Yuuki Shows the Girls How, and Subete no Eikō wa Hakanai Mono. Cheers!

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Have I ever have a fanfic “go off the rails...”? Yes, but that would be telling. I’ve also had a “one-shot” original work “go off the rails” here or there...

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I am now up to Chapter 11 here, and I’ve been for a while.