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From: buzzard@TheWorld.com (Sean T Barrett)
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L. Ross Raszewski <lraszewski@loyola.edu> wrote:
>On 11 Jan 2002 10:19:32 GMT, Magnus Olsson <mol@df.lth.se> wrote:
>>OTOH, some fan fic writers are extermely competent; sometimes I wonder
>>why they bother writing for a "market" that not only is non-paying,
>>but illegal.
>>
>
>Um.... because they have a story that intimately involves characters
>and situations from an existing source?
>
>Star Trek fanfic is probably the easiest example I can think of. If
>you have an idea that clearly draws from the *universe* established in
>the Star Trek series, you have two choices; write fanfic, or mogrify
>your story to make sense in a novel universe.

Or three, pick a different idea.

Ideas are generally cheap; execution is what matters. Rather than
throw all of that hard work executing an idea "for a 'market' that
not only is non-paying, but illegal," why not develop a different
idea?

There's also a possible motivation of "pay homage to an existing
property", but there are other ways to do that, a la Zeta Space.

SeanB
