[Scribe]

I am so furious I can barely speak....must control myself to keep typing. If anyone has any information about a murderer for hire please contact me. I wish to rub out the story stealing twat on FF.NET that ripped of Easterlng word for word and passed it off as her own! She even has the gall to tell people not to steal her story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the email I received this morning....

[Gabriel]

I'll see what I can dig up, Scribe. My mom's family should know some people. maybe I can get you a discount.

[KhazarKhum]

And folks wonder why I won't even recommend publishing a shopping list at ff.net...

We do have a cement mixer, and lots of bags of cement. Maybe she needs some new footwear.

khazar

[Zimraphel]

Promise me: if you ever see anybody rip off my work, leave enough of her alive so I can get in some painful torture of my own? Savvy?

I reported the little twat and left her a scathing review. I suggest everybody else do the same.

[Zimraphel]

Promise me: if you ever see anybody rip off my work, leave enough of her alive so I can get in some painful torture of my own? Savvy?

[Roisin]

How awful. It amazes me that anyone could be so shameless.

That's just...icky. Very Single White Female. I wonder if she is mentally ill.

Roisin

[Roisin]

Oh, and the edits she made were awful. The title is awful, the name is awful, and the chapter titles are awful.

No wonder she has to steal other people's work.

Roisin

[sindohte]

Yet another sign of the coming apocalypse - bald faced thieving. I truly do not know what is scarier, being soulless enough to steal someone else's work and trying to pass it off as your own or mangling a masterpiece and then trying to pass it off as your creation. Likely the brazen hussy would paint blonde hair on the Mona Lisa and then claim that she painted it.

[Thuriniel]

I really can't believe it! As a fanfic author myself, I can very well imagine what you're going through! Guess what? I think I'm gonna go and flame someone . Finally I have a good excuse to do so!

Maria

[Viv]

I wonder if published authors feel this way when they hear about fanfiction.

Oh, I know, we fanfic writers add value with our suppositions and extensions and so on. But I bet the authors still feel violated and ripped off.

[Isabeau]

[Thuriniel]

I think I have a pretty good example of how far fanfic can go ... it all happens in the fun world of Spanish literature of late XVI, early XVII century (imagine that, I even paid attention during my classes!).

Cervantes published the first part of Don Quixote and, if I remember correctly, took him 16 years to publish the second part. Anyways, before he got to publish the second part, another author came up with an alternative second part to Don Quixote .... Cervantes didn't take it very well and mocked this book, Avellaneda's Don Quixote (that you could call a fan fiction!), in his second part of Don Quixote. But note this, Avellaneda's Don Quixote is still in print, and we study it as well. We don't take it very seriously, but there certainly is a significance to it. So, writers, beware and don't take too long between updates or it will happen to you like it happened to Cervantes !

Now, let's go back to this person that plagiarized "The Easterling." Personally I think that one thing is writing fanfic, like we all do, and yes, I can understand why some authors don't take it well, like Mrs. Rice, while others actually read it, like JK Rowling. But another thing is taking someone else's fiction and post it word by word under another name. If this person would've written about ... I don't know, let's say Legolas and Melia's years in Ithilien, then I would give her the benefit of the doubt because in that case,she would be writing fanfic about another fanfic. Then it would be up to Scribe to be Mrs. Rice or Ms. Rowling .

Maria

[Maram68]

I am truly sorry, dear Scribe.

As most other authors, I know how much love and effort one puts into writing. This girls stupidity makes my skin crawl. I am so very sorry.

[Scribe]

What galls me other than the thievery - is the author's notes she had with the story. Each chapter comes with a short exerpt of how she go to where she did in the story, going so far as to explaining the motivation and why certain scenes played out as they did. My poor husband (the mad, quirky sweetie that he is - picture Harper from Andromeda ) was sitting next to me when I was going through these, still has finger nail indentations in his leg from my reading them. I mean she is so complete in her illusion that she wrote Easterling that it still makes me boil with rage. Honestly, the plagarizing is not as infuriating to me as these little notes. She apologizes for the prologue, she apologises for the snotty way (snotty ...grrr) way Haldir behaves, for Legolas' absences at certain points. If she had wanted to use the character, she had only to ask and the name of the OFC....believe it or not, Melia was the product of some hard word shifting through Silmarillion to find a name that could have a Middle earth origin, not a bastardization of deceased Ailyah's name. And the chapter naming.....Legolas' makes his move.....Haldir Ruinin.....Kiss Aftermath?????????? What would she have called it after the duo had sex FXXX aftermath?

Anyway, thank you all that went over there and defended me. I'm calmer now to have seen those flames not only as a defense against writting's worst behaviour but some pretty nice people who were sticking up for me. I'm glad Easterling provoked such a response.

[Roisin]

I had better not read those "notes" or I might be wanting to throttle someone.

Seriously. Stealing someone's artistic endeavor is just such a vile thing to do. This chick must be kind of a dumbass or she wouldn't have gone about it in such an obvious way, but I really don't care to cut her any slack.

And I don't consider fanfiction in the same light at all. We're not copying Tolkien's work and trying to pass it off as our own.

Roisin