Daniel Dvorkin · @medigoth
174 followers · 342 posts · Server qoto.org

On an fan group to which I belong, there is a discussion going on about a particular plot point, the kind of endless dissection know well. I know this very well, because I’m one of them. Someone said “read this tie-in novel, it explains everything!” Then someone else called it “fan fiction,” and a third participant objected strenuously. Ah, : God help me, I do love it so.

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The most money I ever made from writing, by far, was by co-authoring a novel†. It did quite well, as Star Trek novels tend to do. I lived for the better part of a year on the advance, and the royalties were a nice supplement to my income for several years afterward. Over the decades since, many people have told me it was one of their favorite novels ever. I don’t know how many copies I’ve signed. Feels good, man.

But I don’t kid myself—it’s fan fiction. So is all tie-in fiction to TV and movie series, unless an episode or a movie takes the story and puts it on screen. I’m not sure if that’s ever happened with Star Trek, in the very long series of novels based on multiple iterations of the show, and I know it’s never happened with the . All the tie-in novels, comics, and games are non-canonical. They just kind of exist out there in the realm of what-if and might-have-been. Maybe someday someone will stumble across them, floating in the deep, and do a salvage operation …

is the one partial exception I know of, with some portions of the extended universe making it at least into the animated series. In general, though, screen franchise owners don’t think much of novels etc. They figure tie-ins are of interest only to hardcore fans, and there aren’t enough of those to make up the audience needed to justify big-budget productions. To them it’s just a way to squeeze a few extra bucks out of the property.

I’m not happy about this, because a lot of really great worldbuilding happens at the edges of known space. In the case of the Alienverse, for example, I think the comics would have made a much better foundation for a third and fourth movie than what we actually got. But it’s a sadly consistent pattern.

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†ST:TNG # 8, The Captains’ Honor, by David and Daniel Dvorkin, in case you were wondering. David is my father, who has also written a few other Star Trek novels and a lot of original novels. Despite the money, neither of us has any desire ever to go through the experience of dealing with Paramount ever again.

#obsessive #startrek #Alienverse #starwars #fans #fandom #darkhorse #aliens

Last updated 1 year ago

Daniel Dvorkin · @medigoth
174 followers · 341 posts · Server qoto.org

On an fan group to which I belong, there is a discussion going on about a particular plot point, the kind of endless dissection know well. I know this very well, because I’m one of them. Someone said “read this tie-in novel, it explains everything!” Then someone else called it “fan fiction,” and a third participant objected strenuously. Ah, : God help me, I do love it so.

===

The most money I ever made from writing, by far, was by co-authoring a novel†. It did quite well, as Star Trek novels tend to do. I lived for the better part of a year on the advance, and the royalties were a nice supplement to my income for several years afterward. Over the decades since, many people have told me it was one of their favorite novels ever. I don’t know how many copies I’ve signed. Feels good, man.

But I don’t kid myself—it’s fan fiction. So is all tie-in fiction to TV and movie series, unless an episode or a movie takes the story and puts it on screen. I’m not sure if that’s ever happened with Star Trek, in the very long series of novels based on multiple iterations of the show, and I know it’s never happened with the . All the tie-in novels, comics, and games are non-canonical. They just kind of exist out there in the realm of what-if and might-have-been. Maybe someday someone will stumble across them, floating in the deep, and do a salvage operation …

is the one partial exception I know of, with some portions of the extended universe making it at least into the animated series. In general, though, screen franchise owners don’t think much of novels etc. They figure tie-ins are of interest only to hardcore fans, and there aren’t enough of those to make up the audience needed to justify big-budget productions. To them it’s just a way to squeeze a few extra bucks out of the property.

I’m not happy about this, because a lot of really great worldbuilding happens at the edges of known space. In the case of the Alienverse, for example, I think the comics would have made a much better foundation for a third and fourth movie than what we actually got. But it’s a sadly consistent pattern.

===

†ST:TNG # 8, The Captains’ Honor, by David and Daniel Dvorkin, in case you were wondering. David of course is my father, who has also written a few other Star Trek novels and a lot of original novels. Despite the money, neither of us has any desire ever to go through the experience of dealing with Paramount ever again.

#aliens #obsessive #startrek #Alienverse #fans #darkhorse #fandom #starwars

Last updated 1 year ago

Hund · @hund
1743 followers · 2179 posts · Server fosstodon.org

I don't it when use an amount of in their like this. It makes it and just to the .

I can only how it must be to to the in a .

#like #people #obsessive #hashtags #posts #difficult #plain #annoying #read #text #imagine #fun #listen #screenreader

Last updated 1 year ago

Dave Dawkins · @golgaloth
826 followers · 5459 posts · Server writing.exchange

How much care do you take with your punctuation?

#Authodons #writing #amwriting #writingtips #grammar #obsessive

Last updated 1 year ago

Leftist Lawyer · @LeftistLawyer
897 followers · 224 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Story:
"We’re Missing a Key Driver of :
-- A of achievement and long hours can make kids ."

The solution (no doubt written by a myopic "" asshole who's symbolic of "[a] culture of obsessive student achievement")? Get rid of like the SAT/ACT.

How about instead, we get rid of the IVY FUCKING LEAGUE whose existence is implicitly associated with OBSESSIVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT and admission to which is entirely correlated with "success" as have been programmed to understand it?

What a of we live in.

#atlantic #teen #anxiety #culture #obsessive #student #schoolwork #depressed #ivyleague #achievement #testing #americans #joke #world

Last updated 2 years ago

Jeff Emmerson - Author · @JeffEmmerson
4165 followers · 1197 posts · Server mastodon.world
stoicmike · @stoicmike
39 followers · 442 posts · Server zirk.us

Getting the mind off the hamster wheel...

#thinking #thoughts #obsessive

Last updated 2 years ago

My tendencies are starting to show I guess, when I find myself scrolling back through a huge timeline of just the people I follow, to read updates chronologically from where I left off. Apparently this Obama guy's got a good shot at the candidacy.

#obsessive

Last updated 2 years ago

Mental Health TV · @mentalhealthtv
4 followers · 24 posts · Server mastodon.social

Mental Health TV offers a detailed guide on  and . This study guide includes interview with a patient who is treated for OCD. This guide thoroughly explains Exposure- Response Prevention Therapy and other OCD treatments.

mental-health.tv/obsessive-com

#obsessive #Compulsive #disorder #treatments

Last updated 2 years ago

Ben Stroz6i · @stroz
72 followers · 130 posts · Server infosec.exchange

Fun fact: I saw The Fifth Element 6 times at the local movie theater.

The last viewing, I went to alone, after a friend's mother refused to let him see it a sixth time because (and this is a direct quote) he might "go on a rampage." 😆

This probably explains a lot about my brain lol

Every time I upgrade our home theatre setups, this is the first film on the screen.

#thefifthelement #supergreen #rampage #obsessive

Last updated 2 years ago

tripu · @tripu
163 followers · 1324 posts · Server qoto.org