I have a deep and abiding inability to just let things goAs I may have mentioned in a previous post, I got into a small argument with the writer GoH, Michael Stackpole, during a CONduit panel this weekend. The argument was whether you can learn anything by writing fanfic. I, of course, am firmly in the camp that you do. I maintain that I would
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I used my fanfiction, myself, to experiment with writing that I knew wouldn't be sellable in today's market because it was old-fashioned, and I learned many things I wouldn't have, attempting to please an editor.
Even more than the writing, I think betaing fanfiction has helped me. I was able to see problems in other people's work, and realize I was committing the same sins myself.
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Sounds like he's talking out of his ass.
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You know what, though? I'm not going to tell anyone what they "should be" writing. If they're happy writing masturbatory fantasies, go, them. It's not my personal cup of tea, and I won't read it, but at least they're writing. It's (usually) only when they get bratty about concrit that my claws come out. Not everyone wants to be a professionally published writer, just like not everyone who carries a sketchpad around wants to be an artist with a gallery opening somewhere.
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