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I got this off a writer's feed:
Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx is disturbed by all the pornographic fan fiction people have been sending her. Proulx wrote the short story that became the film Brokeback Mountain starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as gay cowboy lovers. But some fans didn't think the movie was racy enough -- so they've been sending Annie sexually explicit fan fiction to help her "fix" her story.
And she's not happy about it. The film, she says, has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life".
"There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story," she told The Wall Street Journal.
"They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and p0rnish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."
How annoying for her! The story doesn't need "fixing" -- Annie is perfectly happy with it. Perhaps she should change her email address and get a post office box.
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Not only was Annie perfectly happy with it, but so were the publishers. And the folks who bought it and made it into the movie.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of otherwise perfectly rational people who firmly believe that graphic sex and porn are the only two true literary forms. I read very little fanfic these days because I can't stand the low-rent, poorly written sex fantasies that most fanfic has devolved down to.
Worse are people who believe that they should *share* what they've written with the actual authors. How egotistical are people these days to believe that *they* know better -- are better -- than the people who first created the characters and situations that captured their imaginations.
There are times I firmly believe that the internet is going to destroy society... one brain at a time.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx is disturbed by all the pornographic fan fiction people have been sending her. Proulx wrote the short story that became the film Brokeback Mountain starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as gay cowboy lovers. But some fans didn't think the movie was racy enough -- so they've been sending Annie sexually explicit fan fiction to help her "fix" her story.
And she's not happy about it. The film, she says, has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life".
"There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story," she told The Wall Street Journal.
"They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and p0rnish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."
How annoying for her! The story doesn't need "fixing" -- Annie is perfectly happy with it. Perhaps she should change her email address and get a post office box.
******
Not only was Annie perfectly happy with it, but so were the publishers. And the folks who bought it and made it into the movie.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of otherwise perfectly rational people who firmly believe that graphic sex and porn are the only two true literary forms. I read very little fanfic these days because I can't stand the low-rent, poorly written sex fantasies that most fanfic has devolved down to.
Worse are people who believe that they should *share* what they've written with the actual authors. How egotistical are people these days to believe that *they* know better -- are better -- than the people who first created the characters and situations that captured their imaginations.
There are times I firmly believe that the internet is going to destroy society... one brain at a time.
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Date: 2008-09-26 04:56 am (UTC)From:One day soon, we'll all be furiously scribbling down lousy porn while talking to our socks in a language nobody else understands.
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Date: 2008-09-26 04:31 pm (UTC)From:The predominance of smutfic annoys me, but I'm pretty much resigned to it at this point. Supply and demand, and it's not that difficult to ignore.
But I continue to be boggled by any fic author who actually shoves their stuff in front of the source creator, let alone the explicit stuff. What on EARTH can they be thinking?