Fanfic Writers of the Future.

[reddragdiva]

I was being dot_catty (in response to this), but it hasn't nearly enough aggrieved flames yet. So I thought I'd point you lot at it. Being as this journal is read by both fanfic writers and those who not only construct their own characters but are published writers in the non-vanity paper sense.

Some things are written to be read; others are written to be written. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the second — it's excellent training wheels for the first — but the two should not be conflated. Folk forms in general, and especially those where the creators are also the audience, are fatally susceptible to terminal anticriticality, wherein pointing out that shit stinks drives the afflicted into a blind rage. I don't have a problem with the existence of fanfiction itself; I do have a problem with those who not only take it far too seriously, but demand I do so as well.

Oh, and I'd just like to link to this again.

(I wonder what my friends-of list will look like tomorrow.)

Comments

[reddragdiva]

I think yuo'll find that's spelt "DESTROYING THERE CRETIVITY!11!!2!". Obvoiusly you are ilitret and not a REAL WRITER.

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

You are also mistaken.

It's "DESTROYING THERE CRETIVITY!1one!bang2!1!two!!at"