Were it not for these vile guns, he would himself have been a soldier!
The publishing industry is full of people who can tell "good" writing from "bad" writing, the definitions of which contain a certain degree of subjectivity but not endless subjectivity. Most people can tell Fitzgerald from fan fiction, and people within the industry can get very granular. [source]
Man, this is a stupid and hopeless fight to pick in this venue, and I won't, but sometimes I wish my contribution to the world's discourse could be to make non-fandom people understand that "better than literature" and "fanworks" aren't mutually exclusive, and that Fitzgerald versus fic is a really useless false dichotomy.
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Man, this is a stupid and hopeless fight to pick in this venue, and I won't, but sometimes I wish my contribution to the world's discourse could be to make non-fandom people understand that "better than literature" and "fanworks" aren't mutually exclusive, and that Fitzgerald versus fic is a really useless false dichotomy.
This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. I would love to hear from you at DW! If you can see this post, you can comment here using OpenID. Thanks!