fanfic nitpick
Dec. 3rd, 2008 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richI like writing for the occasional 'fest, but if I have to fill in one more header with my name next to "author," I may light my eyebrows on fire.
I am a fanfic writer. I am not an author. I post fanfic to LJ - I don't publish it there. To call a fanfic writer an author is like comparing me to Keith Olbermann. I rant about politics on my LiveJournal to a couple hundred people who might stop to read; I do not have my own show broadcasting to millions. If someday I were to publish that original novel (or get my own show), I would like it to mean something. I think the likes of Naomi Novik, Anne Rice, Brian Jacques, and others deserve better than to be lumped in on the same level with our playing with borrowed characters and dialogues.
Just two cents. If YMMV, feel free to say why.
I am a fanfic writer. I am not an author. I post fanfic to LJ - I don't publish it there. To call a fanfic writer an author is like comparing me to Keith Olbermann. I rant about politics on my LiveJournal to a couple hundred people who might stop to read; I do not have my own show broadcasting to millions. If someday I were to publish that original novel (or get my own show), I would like it to mean something. I think the likes of Naomi Novik, Anne Rice, Brian Jacques, and others deserve better than to be lumped in on the same level with our playing with borrowed characters and dialogues.
Just two cents. If YMMV, feel free to say why.
