Morality of Writing Fan Fiction Based on Literotica Stories

[Wifetheif]

I'm going to write "All Done Screaming" It will be a sequel to Harlan Ellison's "I have no Mouth and I Must Scream" in which it turns out everything was a dream and they all lived happily ever after. Surely Eliison's estate won't have a problem with that, will they?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Um, is that sarcasm? Harlan Ellison was the most litigious writer in history! So I bet his estate will guard his work just as vigorously as he did.

I'm going to write "All Done Screaming" It will be a sequel to Harlan Ellison's "I have no Mouth and I Must Scream" in which it turns out everything was a dream and they all lived happily ever after. Surely Eliison's estate won't have a problem with that, will they?

 

[Wifetheif]

Of COURSE it's sarcasm! I was a huge fan of Ellison. The internet really needs sarcasm and irony sensors.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Just making sure!

Of COURSE it's sarcasm! I was a huge fan of Ellison. The internet really needs sarcasm and irony sensors.

 

[Wifetheif]

The IDEA of a re-write of "I have No Mouth and I Must Scream" being done by a sentient AI to combat "computer phobia" or "AI exclusion" WOULD make for a really biting satire!

 

[AwkwardMD]

The IDEA of a re-write of "I have No Mouth and I Must Scream" being done by a sentient AI to combat "computer phobia" or "AI exclusion" WOULD make for a really biting satire!

They would send Brillo after you

 

[Wifetheif]

They would send Brillo after you

And I'd win a huge Judgment from the ABC network! So there!

 

[Bramblethorn]

@Plathfan, what writing are you talking about? I don't find any stories you wrote here or anywhere under that pen name. A pen name, I assume, is largely a tribute to Sylvia Plath. But where do you post your writing?

Given Tilan's general attitude to people, I suspect it's not so much Plath's poetry he's a fan of as the manner of her death.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Probably so. And it is so sad to end one's life. And what a tropey way to kill oneself. That reminds me of Sherlock's doll house from Elementary!

Given Tilan's general attitude to people, I suspect it's not so much Plath's poetry he's a fan of as the manner of her death.

 

[MillieDynamite]

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[M_K_Babalon]

It's fan fiction, not an original story. You work as hard as you want on it, but in the end you had to take something from another author to create that story.

What's the big critique with modern cinema? That everything is a sequel or a reboot. They are taking 40 year old movies and doing this. The question is why, and the universal answer is they are creatively bankrupt. The comic industry is even worse. They have nothing new to offer.

Which is exactly what adding on to another person's story is. No matter how hard you work at it, it was not yours. If I write a 50k Star Wars spin off you're really going to say that's my story?

Most people have too many of their own ideas to have time to write a sequel.

Also, there is an insulting tone to it-especially in that trash pile of 'February Sucks" spin offs, and that's the new author thinking the original wasn't done to their satisfaction. Quite arrogant.

You need someone else to kickstart your muse, maybe you have a lame muse.

Borrowed concepts, doesn't mean a story isn't original. Everything around it might not be. Most of mine can be read with some degree of fandom blindness, and I could change some names, and nobody would know out right, like 50 Shades, and probably Twilight itself.

 

[HaralLuhhan]

Short version: I read a story on Literotica that I liked. It was published on the site 13 years ago and the author has been inactive since. Attempts to contact the author have gone unanswered. I'd like to write a sequel to the story (with a disclaimer indicating it's based upon characters the other author created and pointing them to the original story) and publish it as fan fiction. I intend to be respectful of the author's material (this isn't a Blood and Honey hit-job). If asked by the author I would remove my story.

This seems like it would be okay under the site rules. Your thoughts?

I had a thread very similar to this a month ago and got the same response.

I feel your pain, really.

What I've done though, is follow their advice and write something of my own that is inspired by the original. Its my first story here and has had positive reviews so far.

Ultimately while I'd have liked to, in my case, write a continuation of the other authors abandoned story, writing my own has been very satisfying so far.

Regarding the fanfic question, fanfiction.net has existed as long as this site. It's doing fine.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I had a thread very similar to this a month ago and got the same response.

I feel your pain, really.

What I've done though, is follow their advice and write something of my own that is inspired by the original. Its my first story here and has had positive reviews so far.

Ultimately while I'd have liked to, in my case, write a continuation of the other authors abandoned story, writing my own has been very satisfying so far.

Regarding the fanfic question, fanfiction.net has existed as long as this site. It's doing fine.

This is a small caveat, but a caveat all the same, and one not mentioned; all that seem abandoned, may very well not be. I have at least one story that I hadn't touched in years, that I started back on last year. I'm not alone on that here, or elsewhere.

 

[HaralLuhhan]

This is a small caveat, but a caveat all the same, and one not mentioned; all that seem abandoned, may very well not be. I have at least one story that I hadn't touched in years, that I started back on last year. I'm not alone on that here, or elsewhere.

Yeah I know. I came back to a story on another site I had abandoned 10 years ago as well. I hadn't even visited the site at all. But in this case, given their posting history it was clear they disappeared from all their open stories for 2 years, then appeared in 2014 to do an update on a few stories, and then haven't been back since.

Is it possible they'll come back again after a long absence? Sure, but in the mean time, they've abandoned it, and the site. just like I did.