Meta/Rant: It's like deja vu all over again!
Once upon a time--back in the mid 90s--John Ordover, the then Star Trek editor of Pocket Books, posted on alt.startrek.creative advertising a contest for fan writers. If you wrote a fic that fit into their guidelines--which were the same stringent ones tie-in writers had to follow--you could win a cash prize and be published in an anthology. If I
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You're about making a buck. Well that is ok, livejournal and blogspot and google and pretty much everything else on the web is about making a buck as well.
But what is really really really annoying is you making a buck and pretending it in some way 'empowers us'.
When you don't, in fact, support, celebrate, embrace, represent or even belong in the same space as us. You don't want to make me a better writer, you want my eyes for your banner ads. For example, a decent beta reader would have told you to invest in some capital letters, unless you think lower case keeps you down with the kids bb.
I have no interest in 'giving you a chance' when you come trolling in someone else's livejournal and using other people's passion to make you some cash. Here is the only thing you will ever get from me. A free beta since the world of "fanfic" [did you like my cute little patronizing touch of having little bunny ears around fanfic? Bet you did!] is free and open. The word isn't "commentsts" it's 'commenters' if it's a person, and 'comments' if you mean the replies.
I look forward to you and your real feelings failing miserably.
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