Fan Fiction

Trapper John, M.D.

The Stories

Bang a story in progress
part 2, part 3.

Gnab what happens when you're halfway through a story and start wondering what if...

Snow Day an exercise in trying to figure out how to make text files work -- also still in progress. Warning this is file is 220K plus. It also doesn't seem to have any quotation marks when I look at it from a lynx browser. Sigh!
html The Beginning of the HTML version -- still in progress.

The Other Experience (aka Just Thinking.) Yet another variation on the theme from "Bang," but this time looking at it as a variant ending to the episode "The Ego Experience." still in progress. the html version.

Hidden from the Eyes
part 2. Proof that I'm not the only one who likes Stanley.

about Fan Fiction

What is Fan Fiction?

Fan Fiction is fiction written by fans which is unauthorized by the original creators of the series, universe, game, books, whatever. It's the result of "pen-itch" -- the desire to have more stories, or more satisfying stories, about the objects of our affections, be they certain characters or certain settings. Much of Fanfic is unabashed wish fulfillment, and a lot of it is pretty awful. But some of it's good. And some of it is funny. And some of it can move you to tears.

What about copyright?

I'm not really sure. I know for a fact that a fan who writes stories, etc., and then tries to make a profit from them is infringing on the copyright. I'm pretty sure that a fan who writes stuff and shows it around to friends and never gets anything but comments (any author lives on feedback) is okay, but putting it on the internet... well. As far as I'm concerned, I can't copyright this stuff. I can date it -- and I will. I can strongly suggest that you cite your source if you use it (let me take the blame for errors!). But I can't copyright it as it stands. It's not my universe. If 20th Century Fox decided to lift the entire plot and make the episode (however unlikely that would be), I'd have no grounds to complain. If somebody else lifted the entire plot, changed the names and then said it was original however....

I thought you liked Stanley. Why are you beating him up?

I do like Stanley. And when he's beat up, all the people around him get to admit that they like him too.

Aw come on, does anyone take this stuff seriously?

If you have access to a decent academic library you might try to lay hands on "Enterprising Women" by Camille Bacon-Smith, University of Pennsylvania Press, copyright 1992, ISBN 0-8122-1379-3, or "Textual Poachers" by Henry Jenkins, Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc, also 1992, ISBN 0-415-90572-9. There may be more recent studies as well, but I haven't been paying attention.

A word of warning.

Anyone who can't distinguish between the characters and the actors has no business writing fan fiction or reading it.

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