Is Fan Fiction Plagiarism or Inspiration?

How derivative works foster creativity

Fan fiction (or “fanfiction”), in its most basic definition, is a written genre that uses elements from conventionally distributed work (such as established characters, settings, plots or scenes) to create new works of fiction. Because of fanfiction’s derivative nature, there has been much debate among authors, publishers and those who ...
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Is Fan Fiction Plagiarism or Inspiration?

Beyond Ekphrasis

Writing your heart out in a museum

Enter any museum, traditional, contemporary, technological, scientific, historical, and you see people moving slowly, standing quietly, observing. All well and good. People arrive in museums to learn and understand art. They study the installation; they ingest the presented explanation and interpretation. Perfectly reasonable and expected. As a young person taken to ...
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Beyond Ekphrasis