But is it writing?

[seiberwing]

It does my heart good to see pretentious twaddle ripped to shreds by an entire comm.I'm a writer because I write. It has nothing to do with whether I've created an arbitrary amount of pages, put out an arbitrary amount of blood-sweat-and-tears, or convinced someone to publish my work. And it certainly has nothing to do with whether my output is

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[joules_burn]

That's partially my point. Granted, I loved all the questioning about what their 'standard' for becoming a writer was.... considering they pretty much had none other than BLOOD AND TEARS. It's about as measurable as needing to have GUTS. But it's all just a label. I was an art major, so the 'are we artists' question was something that was an under current to just about everything. People wanting to earn the rights to call themselves an artist. And they meant it in the professional sense. So while the definition to terms like that are very concrete, the social adoptions of them as something 'more' is pretty common.

I just shrug it off, really. If I write some fic and some guy tells me I'm not a writer, then who cares. It's sort of in the same school of knowing that someone somewhere is going to hate your work in an irrationally passionate sort of way.

But mainly for the thread, explicitiveuhoh brought up some interesting points and seemed quite interested in discussing the topic in a more serious way. Do I agree with everything they said? Nah. But they were pretty much universally dogpiled and ridiculed as a supporter of the OP. It feels like I'm looking at bipartisan politics.