Interesting post re: fanfic

[pegkerr]

From the ever quotable scott_lynch, here posting about Robin Hobb's rant against fanfic here. The discussion continues on metaquotes here.

I offer this without comment since I know many on my f-list are fanfic readers and writers; the discussion is getting very lively. If you chime in, please be polite, people.

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[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Actually, this kind of relates to something I've been meaning to ask for a while, purely out of curiosity: as a published writer, what's your "policy" with respect to reading fanfiction, if indeed you read it? Or do you avoid talking about your personal fannish tendencies altogether? As a fanfiction reader and writer with aspirations of one day being published, these are very real issues to me, and it would be interesting to hear your thoughts.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Or do you avoid talking about your personal fannish tendencies altogether?

Bingo. That's pretty much my policy. Sorry!

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Hm. It's just discouraging sometimes, I guess, to find such a rift between the two disciplines, as it were.