Why I *can't* read your script

[cleolinda]

Okay, since I think I was waxing a bit verbose about this on a site meant for 140-character messages:

What happened was, A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson informed the internets that He Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.

Cole Abaius thought this made him a bit of an asshole, although more for the tone than the sentiment.

John Scalzi

Comments

[khaman]

The MZB story still gives me the shivering fits, as it should any writer.

[cleolinda]

Well, and it should REALLY piss off her fans, who then never got to read that novel.

[eregyrn]

Oh, it pissed off her fans, all right. Monumentally. Which I know just from having watched the reaction from one fandom over, not even from being IN her fandom at the time. (The repercussions of that event had direct influence on Pern fandom for years as well, in terms of the rules that AM put in place to protect herself from anything similar happening.)

[killiara]

You mean like that rule I came across for roleplaying in Pern online, i.e. you aren't allowed to use any characters from her books, or any of the weyrs that show up in her novels?

[eregyrn]

Yeah, partly. Well, I don't know what rules were said to apply to online RPGs, because I've never been involved in those; but that would only be recently, anyway. (I.e. the post-web era