Why does it matter? Can’t I just say something like, “This example doesn’t correspond to any actual paperclip that’s been made”?
fanfic is based on existing works of fiction.
Merely a definitional issue. If you’d like to write original fiction about paperclips, that’s cool too.
So people somehow like it more when it’s fake? Don’t you have that reversed?
I don’t think people like fanfic more than fiction in general. Of course if there’s fiction they like then they enjoy getting more of it, even if not from the same author.
Why does it matter? Can’t I just say something like, “This example doesn’t correspond to any actual paperclip that’s been made”?
fanfic is based on existing works of fiction.
Merely a definitional issue. If you’d like to write original fiction about paperclips, that’s cool too.
So people somehow like it more when it’s fake? Don’t you have that reversed?
I don’t think people like fanfic more than fiction in general. Of course if there’s fiction they like then they enjoy getting more of it, even if not from the same author.