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Is it okay in a piece of fiction to talk about another piece of fiction as long as you don't claim it as your own? For example, can I have my main character be a huge fan of, say, The Cosby Show, and have him constantly talk about how Cliff Huxtable is his role model and even have him emulate some of that character's mannerisms? I've been assuming that so long as I don't steal the character as my own and I've made the distinction that it is from another piece of well known fiction, then it's kosher to refer to fictional characters as fictional characters. Is this correct?
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Mar 31, 2009 07:21
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Thank you, Slashie.
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Mar 31, 2009 19:16
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Slashie posted:Is the Cosby guy an actual character you're writing? If so are you going to post that here? No, sorry. The Cosby guy actually sounds like a funny premise, but that was just a random example. Specifically I'm talking about Godzilla. A character in a novella I've written is obsessed with Godzilla and talks about him a lot, and I was wondering if that could land me in some trouble with ToHo (they're the ones who sued that artist for using a tiny image of Godzilla in a collage but this is hardly the same thing).
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Apr 1, 2009 06:02
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I have two questions about manuscript format. First, what do three number signs # # # signify in a manuscript? Second, I want to have chapters but I don't want them to be numbered or titled. I want the book to have a simple repeated image at the top corner of each new chapter, but I'd settle for the first letter of each chapter being large, like a storybook. I realize I'm getting ahead of myself but how should I format this in the manuscript? Should I just start on a new page for a new chapter with nothing else to signify that it is in fact a new chapter?
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May 3, 2009 23:46
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Thanks, Slashie! To be clear, should I use the #'s and then start a new page or just have it continuous?
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May 4, 2009 00:12
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