Apparently, the line of thought is that paid authors get compensation for their writing and that's why it's okay to discuss their work freely. Some people also seem to believe that paid authors don't care, in which case, they need to look up the example of Anne Rice, who recently went off on her fans for not understanding her work. It was on fandom_wank and everything.
It's the Culture of Nice, as some people put it. "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Which is... nice and all, but hardly helpful and as a serious writer, helpful is better than nice. Even if helpful makes me cry (it hasn't yet, but the possibility exists, and that certainly shouldn't stop anyone from being honest about their opinions).
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Date: 2005-08-23 01:19 pm (UTC)Apparently, the line of thought is that paid authors get compensation for their writing and that's why it's okay to discuss their work freely. Some people also seem to believe that paid authors don't care, in which case, they need to look up the example of Anne Rice, who recently went off on her fans for not understanding her work. It was on fandom_wank and everything.
It's the Culture of Nice, as some people put it. "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Which is... nice and all, but hardly helpful and as a serious writer, helpful is better than nice. Even if helpful makes me cry (it hasn't yet, but the possibility exists, and that certainly shouldn't stop anyone from being honest about their opinions).