Subject: Re: Not so novel
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Posted on: 2009-05-19 09:51:00 UTC
This person is keeping the same basic characters, same basic plotline and events, et cetera. However, it's being completely re-written: The characters are being de-Sueified, the plot holes are being filled in, and the setting is getting superimposed over the Generic Locations.
As one might imagine, the original author (who has a very thin skin and no sense of humor) is in a massive snit about it. As I hear it, she actually got the rewrite run off a fanfic site by crying plagiarism.
Having read both the original piece and what existed of the re-write as of when the Suethor threw a fit...the re-write is no more "plagiarism" of the original piece than this is of this.