At 07:54 PM 11/8/2001 -0500, Susan Beth wrote:
would give the things away for free. At least, I would. Am I that unusual (in this specific regard, I mean:) )? Sticking a piece of fic up on the web is about as close to free as you can hope to get. I'd be doing it if I was still writing.
Nope. An awful lot of fan writers mostly want lots of people to read what they write. The bonus payoff being if some of them actually like the story enough to send feed back.
I don't want anyone to pay me for my fanfic. (Okay, if someone would currently pay me to stay home and *write* fanfic, that would be good, but that's different.)
However--and I'm mostly answering the post you're quoting, Susan Beth, which I missed--that doesn't mean that it would make me happy if someone passed off my fanfic as their own. I *like* my fanfic. Some of it. I'm proud of it. Most of it.
But it's *mine.* I did it. Critique it, parody it, tear it to shreds, mock me publicly--but don't steal it.
-- Michelle Wren-Moyer mmoyer@mninter.net