Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:26:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re:  fanfiction
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote
>On 4/9/2010 6:57 PM, mark wrote:
>>  Michael Walsh wrote:
>> >> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 4/8/2010 6:58 PM >
>> >> Michael Walsh  wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/04/07/the-super-secret-thing-that-i-cannot-tell-you-about-revealed-introducing-fuzzy-nation/
>> >>
>> >> So much for my opinion of Scalzi: fanfic.
>> >
>> > I'm willing to let him channel his inner Ron Moore.
>> >
>> > Anyway, I suspect there won't be any Kirk/Spock action in the
>> > book.
>>
>>  And no slash, thank you. Still, nowhere *near* all fanfic is Trek.
>
>None of it was, originally, and none of it was what people call that
>now.  Proper fanfiction was fiction *about* fans.  Some still is.

Not being an old-time fan, the idea of writing fiction about real
people (or about personas worn temporarily by real people)
seems fraught with risk.  Even Tuckerizing could get tricky.
How did people avoid misunderstandings?
Was it just that fandom was a very small group when that was
popular?

=Tamar