This question was prompted by the comments of one of my all-time fav fanfic authors. This person freely admitted to "ripping off" (that person's words) other works.
I readily admit that I once copied exactly the rhyme and meter of a Dr. Seuss poem(and even kept in one verse word for word), so I, too, have "ripped off" another writer.
Obviously we "rip off" Stargate SG-1 when we write SG-1 fanfic, but that's different.
Or is it?
So I was wondering just how many among us do this?
Why do you do it?
How do you, the reader of fanfic, feel about this?
I readily admit that I once copied exactly the rhyme and meter of a Dr. Seuss poem(and even kept in one verse word for word), so I, too, have "ripped off" another writer.
Obviously we "rip off" Stargate SG-1 when we write SG-1 fanfic, but that's different.
Or is it?
So I was wondering just how many among us do this?
Why do you do it?
How do you, the reader of fanfic, feel about this?
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