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[schmevil]

Legal battle over Watchmen movie
Film studio Twentieth Century Fox has applied to a Los Angeles court to block the release of Watchmen, based on the comic books written by Alan Moore. [...] Fox spokesman Gregg Brilliant said it planned to stop the release of the movie and "any related Watchmen media that violate our copyright interests in that

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[schmevil]

Well, I'm thinking about really basic skills. And when talking about fan writers I would also include people who post barely understandable Frankenfic that's part story, part numbered list, part lulzy commentary.

Obviously it's impossible to ever know, but I wouldn't be surprised if percentagewise it shook out to about the same.

I think this is true after you exclude the *really* casual writers.

I definitely write to write, not to become a better writer. I want to improve my skills but that's secondary to my desire to tell stories.

Learning to write what sells does not mean learning to write well, or even learning to write decent stories

Sooo very true. I can spend the rest of my fan writing career posting stories that get no comments, and there are no financial disincentives to stop me.

[tammylee]

I'm heading to my LCS today or tomorrow to pick up Jonathan Hickman's Network News, and Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo. Anyone have some more recs for me?

I picked up the first of the revamped Tomie collections by Junji Ito. Scared the PEE out of me!

Doctrow makes some good points but I think it was his comment about how he'd only ever seen one person selling her fanfic at a con that just didn't seem true to me. Fanfiction STARTED with people selling their stories as Fanzines. Just because they aren't being sold openly doesn't mean they aren't still thriving.

[schmevil]

I'll take a look at the Tomie. I can't remember if I've read them before, though I do seem to be aware of them. *g*

Doctrow makes some good points but I think it was his comment about how he'd only ever seen one person selling her fanfic at a con that just didn't seem true to me. Fanfiction STARTED with people selling their stories as Fanzines. Just because they aren't being sold openly doesn't mean they aren't still thriving.

Yeah, that grabbed me too. I was like, uh, zines? Hello? There seems to be a broad fannish consensus *now* that fic should never be for sale, but that hasn't always been the case. I don't think that a fic-for-profit model has ever been widely acceptable (at least afaik).