"When someone tells a fanfiction writer that they’re “not a real writer,” I say to that person, “You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.”"
Literature is defined not by what it is but how it is. Is its plot written well? Do its characters feel real? Is the world plausible? Is the prose balanced? Does it have meaning? Does it strike home? A story is literature when it is written well. To dismiss all fanfiction as non-literature would be to completely ignore the amazing works that people have created. Epic sagas that span huge, complex, and real world-scenes built off of what was originally a small set. Short stories that hit the heart like any professionally written one would. Comedies that rival Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Masterfully written prose. Sagas longer than any published series in existence. If you can look at the really good meat of fanfiction and dismiss it as non-literature, then you dismiss all literature.
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Dynamics said
Neither is fanfiction.
;~;
Krein said
Sorry I keep taking so long to do things guys. I promise I'm not abandoning this RP myself, I just find myself distracted by other things lately. I'll try my best to have the new OOC up sometime tomorrow, I hope you'll all still be interested.
Naturally.
Dynamics said
No, published doesn't mean literature. Divergent isn't true literature. Neither is Hunger Games.
Naturally.
Dynamics said
Because I think it's kind of silly, and I'd rather read real literature. Besides, MLP stuff is meh.
Literature isn't defined by whether it's published or not, or whether it's based on something else or not. I've seen writers that have crafted worlds and plots worthy of an epic. Just because it's based on a show doesn't mean it's not real literature.
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Dynamics said
So do I. But I don't really like fanfics.
Why not? There's a lot of really good literature that I've been reading on Fimfiction, as masterful as any published work of fiction.
Dynamics said
You read so many fanfics.
I love to read. :P
Dynamics said
If you say so.
To the contrary, you may not, as that can be the nature of crackfics. Hopefully you will though.
Dynamics said
I don't get it.
You'll get it as it goes on.
Dynamics said
What. Awwwwww. Fine.
Exactly.
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