...I'm not sure how I fit into the metaphor as a reader of fanfic.

[drakyndra]

As I know some of you have already seen: Diana Gabaldon on why fanfiction is a terrible horrible evil thing and like selling your children into slavery!

I find this particularly entertaining, since the only thing I know about Diana Gabaldon is that she based one of her characters on Jamie from Doctor Who.

Of all the links floating round on Fandom Wank this here is one of the better rebuttals.

And now I shall leave the intelligent arguments to people who are I am sure far more eloquent than me. I'll just stick with pointing and laughing at the stupid and reading fanfic.

Comments

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

This is mostly yoinked from some post I'ce read on the debate, but what it comes down to seems to be that they don't seem to understand that some people write for fun. That's why they see it as lazy - because for them, writing is always work, usually with an aim (...such as selling books).

Whereas no-one seems to have a problem with the idea that you can, say, play a sport without intending to make a career of it.

[naive-wanderer.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, I had a similar discussion about it on F_W! It's kind of sad, I think.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Maybe I read something you said, then!