Oh, okay, tell me how that works out.
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apocalypsosDiana Gabaldon, regarding fanfic: "OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I _know_ it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters."
Three things:
1. See subject line.
2. I'm more turned off than I should be by an adult woman using the word "barf."
3. Immoral? Really?
I will admit that it always amuses me when published authors come out of the woodwork to state plainly that they think fanfic writers are evil and stupid. It's not like she doesn't have the right to say it, but she's complaining about it in regards to a "Support Stacie" auction item, which is kind of skeevy.
It's a futile statement that doesn't do anything but make you look like an ass to a lot of your fans and turn off a large enthusiastic readership, and it always comes off to me like they don't actually deign to talk to "the little people," such as it is. (Contrast the attitudes towards their fanbases between, say, Stan Lee who's pro-fanfic and Anne Rice who isn't.)
So, yeah, see subject line again.
EDIT: I have to go to work in forty minutes. Why has no one started any wank in her comments yet? *pokes with a stick*
(I'm not saying you guys should go start wank. I'm just saying I'm going to go to work, and when I get home and turn on my computer at eight the only thing left after fandom piles on is a dissipating mushroom cloud.)
Three things:
1. See subject line.
2. I'm more turned off than I should be by an adult woman using the word "barf."
3. Immoral? Really?
I will admit that it always amuses me when published authors come out of the woodwork to state plainly that they think fanfic writers are evil and stupid. It's not like she doesn't have the right to say it, but she's complaining about it in regards to a "Support Stacie" auction item, which is kind of skeevy.
It's a futile statement that doesn't do anything but make you look like an ass to a lot of your fans and turn off a large enthusiastic readership, and it always comes off to me like they don't actually deign to talk to "the little people," such as it is. (Contrast the attitudes towards their fanbases between, say, Stan Lee who's pro-fanfic and Anne Rice who isn't.)
So, yeah, see subject line again.
EDIT: I have to go to work in forty minutes. Why has no one started any wank in her comments yet? *pokes with a stick*
(I'm not saying you guys should go start wank. I'm just saying I'm going to go to work, and when I get home and turn on my computer at eight the only thing left after fandom piles on is a dissipating mushroom cloud.)
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Date: 2010-05-03 01:23 pm (UTC)I love Robin Hobb's books, but after finding out about her complete NUTCASE attitude about fanfic, I have decided that any of her books that I ever own, I will only buy second-hand.
If anything, I would think it would be ENTIRELY flattering! The idea that there are characters that I have created that inspire people to want to elaborate on their situations or whatever, that would be AMAZING.
Really, all it does is end up making them sound like control freaks who have zero respect for their fanbase. Great way to get me to buy your books, guys!
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Date: 2010-05-03 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-03 02:13 pm (UTC)