It's possible that fanfic has an influence on this - it accustoms the writer to using others' characters in his own writing.
I face - in theory - a situation similar to this, where a friend and I were collaborating on a story and she bailed… which in effect left her character lying on the ground like an abandoned doll. Now, if I wanted to continue the story on my own, I'd have to either reinvent a character to replace hers, or… resuscitate it and make it my character now. Frankly I'd rather do the latter, because it was an interesting character and I know how I'd handle it, and why reinvent the wheel?
Yet it was hers, so I guess I'd have to include that in the acknowledgments or whatever.
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Date: 2013-07-16 05:06 am (UTC)It's possible that fanfic has an influence on this - it accustoms the writer to using others' characters in his own writing.
I face - in theory - a situation similar to this, where a friend and I were collaborating on a story and she bailed… which in effect left her character lying on the ground like an abandoned doll. Now, if I wanted to continue the story on my own, I'd have to either reinvent a character to replace hers, or… resuscitate it and make it my character now. Frankly I'd rather do the latter, because it was an interesting character and I know how I'd handle it, and why reinvent the wheel?
Yet it was hers, so I guess I'd have to include that in the acknowledgments or whatever.