All the Queen's Bitches

[keiramarcos]

So, I think my position on nitpicking is pretty well known. I certainly don't tolerate it with any kind of good grace or manners and I've been told by several asshats that it makes me "ungrateful and horrible". Whatever. That's not actually the whole point of this post... it's this:

Did you know that I've received emails from FIVE different authors since January telling me that they actually stopped posting their fan fiction on the Internet because of nitpickers?

The thing is that nitpickers don't piss me off anymore. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that my "give a damn" on the subject of nitpicking is broken. I mean my "give a damn" had a great fall and all the queen's bitches don't stand a chance in hell of putting it back together again. Just so we're clear. Right. Moving on.

Maybe I'm using the wrong term here because I don't mean people, who out of the good nature of their hearts, point out typos when they are asked for. I mean people who offer unwanted critique. I mean people who think if you don't run over to your site and correct the problem they had with your fic that you will forever be viewed as ungrateful and cruel and a no-good, horrible bitch.

It's just sad, really, that these asshats actually run people out of the fandom with their crap. Really sad. Fandom is supposed to be fun, right?

Comments

[kathana-grey.livejournal.com]

Eh, I hope this makes sense:

I'm not a professional writer myself, thereofre I lack the basis for a real comparrison. From what I observed, I think one of the main differences between professional writing/fan reaction and fanfic/fanreaction is not that pros are better writers. I've read a lot of fanfiction by people who do it as a hobby that was much better than most of the books in the library in the same genre.

And there are a lot of books on the shelf that suck on a fundamental level IMHO. But they have, before a potential member of the paying masses handed over some coins to buy them, been approved by a publisher, no matter if the decision maker did so because he was drunk, was post coitaly stupid from the blow job he just received by the author, or if he/she really likes the book, or his superior wants it because it fits in. Whatever.

Now, readers will still take the time to write scatching reviews but there are coins missing in their purses. It was their decision to spend them and hey, they spent them on a published work, some official critic might have written a gushing review in some important journal about modern literature (or Romance Novels today ^^). People find it harder to let loose without restraint against some 'certified author'.

Fanfiction where the author is directly assesible and is, in the asshats' eyes just a step up from the reader himself (who is still on the drawing board to plot this new, sensational fanfic that will revolutionize the fandom and be picked up by the producers and made into an episode and...)? One click, no searching google or looking it up on that official information collum on the book sleeve? Squeeeeeee!!!!! Let's hand out some pearls of wisdom!

I think I would be just as hurt by really negative feedback for a published work, but the status of pro might scare off some of the riffraff.

*goes away to write more filthy, self indulgent kinky centaur porn* And no, I don't expect to ever see Gibbs with two cocks prancing around on four hooves.

(sry for the delet/repost but I posted the wrong version of my rant first first. Ooops)