Oh, for goodness' sake! I haven't read any of DG's novels, & now I surely won't waste time on them. It seems surprisingly juvenile for a multiply-published author.
Way back when I took creative writing instruction--which was, I grant you, prob'ly before Ms. Gabaldon was born, so perhaps there are new-fangled rules or methods I've not heard of--we were instructed to write something & then let it speak for itself. Explaining but I really meant or no, no, it actually means was forbidden; we accepted comments on what the commenter read, not what we meant to write. Is she afraid that fanfic readers are going to mistake someone else's writing for her own? Does she really think that reading fanfic is going to depress sales of her own novels? Or is she just having a hissy that she can't enforce a copyright on the names & historical time periods she favors?
The brief & classy announcement about fanfic on JB's could serve as an object lesson... tho' I doubt she'd read it (or admit reading it, anyhow). I enjoyed the first few Dresden Files books, & the few TV eps I caught; perhaps it's time to 'vote with my pocketbook' after the next paycheck. :-)
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Date: 2010-05-06 06:10 am (UTC)Way back when I took creative writing instruction--which was, I grant you, prob'ly before Ms. Gabaldon was born, so perhaps there are new-fangled rules or methods I've not heard of--we were instructed to write something & then let it speak for itself. Explaining but I really meant or no, no, it actually means was forbidden; we accepted comments on what the commenter read, not what we meant to write. Is she afraid that fanfic readers are going to mistake someone else's writing for her own? Does she really think that reading fanfic is going to depress sales of her own novels? Or is she just having a hissy that she can't enforce a copyright on the names & historical time periods she favors?
The brief & classy announcement about fanfic on JB's could serve as an object lesson... tho' I doubt she'd read it (or admit reading it, anyhow). I enjoyed the first few Dresden Files books, & the few TV eps I caught; perhaps it's time to 'vote with my pocketbook' after the next paycheck. :-)