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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-01-13 06:37 pm

[ SECRET POST #3297 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3297 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2016-01-14 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"There's a reason why the few fanwriters-turned-published-writers usually write stuff that feels derivative and is worse than their own worse fanfic."

My guess is that you have no idea how many famous writers today dabbled or started in fanfiction in the past. Did you know Lois McMaster Bujold wrote Star Trek fanfic before she became a bestselling sci-fi/fantasy author? I guarantee you she's not the only one, but people who did fandom old school didn't have the internet to immortalize their work.

If you base all your knowledge off a handful of infamous examples like Cassandra Clare and E.L. James, then at least understand you haven't even begun to skim the surface of writers with a fanfic past, and that those people are infamous because of their bad writing, so your sampling is biased.