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Rose:
Okay keep in mind I'm posting from my phone lol. With my new round robin, I got A review from Julilly saying we can't write about real fans - which that I get, I didn't think that far ahead. what i don't get is why (if I put in a disclaimer saying all fans killed are fictional) we have to keep them all nameless. Why? Its not the first time a story has killed off fans and its hard to write and keep the flow without using a name. Look at FYO should we say Valerie should be nameless now just cause she's a fan in the story? Real fans, I get the issue. But I can't see why fictional fans must not be named, it's supposed to just be in fun.

mare:
We mean no real fans who can't defend themselves. If you make a fictional fan that's fine, but you know what I mean? Don't use people who you don't like as a means to bash them just by writing them into a chapter. Does that make any sense?

Valarie is a fictional character. If I were to write an entire chapter about a girl named Mare who is a mod at AC and is killed for being an uber bitch and power hungry, that is bashing a fan. Does that make sense?

You can even use the people who are actually collabing in the story. Kill yourselves all you want, we just don't want you guys to use this story as a way to hate on fans you may not like. I know most of you won't even do something like that but it only takes one...

Rose:
Right, that I get. I was even thinking I was stupid for missing that possibility. But she said we can't use any names beyond our own, which I found to be a bit much.

julilly:

--- Quote from: Rose on August 11, 2011, 11:58:34 AM ---Okay keep in mind I'm posting from my phone lol. With my new round robin, I got A review from Julilly saying we can't write about real fans - which that I get, I didn't think that far ahead. what i don't get is why (if I put in a disclaimer saying all fans killed are fictional) we have to keep them all nameless. Why? Its not the first time a story has killed off fans and its hard to write and keep the flow without using a name. Look at FYO should we say Valerie should be nameless now just cause she's a fan in the story? Real fans, I get the issue. But I can't see why fictional fans must not be named, it's supposed to just be in fun.

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What it means is, don't kill off someone named Marianne then say "Oh well she's fictional!" lol

Nameless as in anonymous.

Otherwise you're going to end up using the name of someone who is on the site who might be a little sensitive who will assume it's about them and complain.

If you want to use the names of other people who aren't part of your collab you should at least have their permission, as Kelly did when writing Fan Friction.

Rose:
LOL ok I thought you meant I couldn't for example, name a fan Sadie lol just so i have a name to use as I write just cause she's gonna get killed.

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