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It turns out that I have been doing death of the author all along without even realizing it. I don’t care what the author’s original intent is. All I care about is what’s on the page. I found that author intent can ruin a book. This happened to me with Harry Potter. After reading several JK Rowling interviews over the years, I actually couldn’t stand to read the books anymore, which was a shame because I was a huge fan. After that experience, I chose not to read or listen to interviews from my favorite authors. I just read the books and enjoy them. I’m okay with fanfiction, I mean I write fanfiction. I’m not okay with people changing who my characters are. If people wanted to give my characters new cases to work on or new adventures to go on, I’m okay with that. I just want people to respect who my characters are and to not change who they are, like with people in the real world. In most of my stories the main character is me with a different name. I don’t want people to change me, but if people want to give me new places to go and new people to meet, I’m happy with that.
A good fanfiction would be believable in the contexts of the world you are playing in. I say this because most of the worlds I write about or read about both original and fanfiction are purely fantasy and have some very unrealistic plots and/ or world physics, but are still fun to read and write. For me fanfiction is not about commenting on the text. For me, it is about having fun in worlds I don’t live in and would like to or at least would like to visit. it is also about answering unanswered questions that I have about the story.
