Back to the drawing board

[wombat_socho]

Welp, that card loaded up okay, but when it came time for it to play it locked up the TX. I'll reformat it and try again, this time doing it the way I'm supposed to using the Palm software install tool.

In other news, I may have committed one of the great blunders in fandom, comparable to getting involved in a land war in Asia or going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line (if you're not the Dread Pirate Roberts, of course): arguing with HP fanfic fans. It all started when I expressed skepticism in the comments to this Ursula Vernon LJ post that beta readers would have helped Ms. Rowling with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; matters then degenerated into an argument about the relative merits of professional writers who have several best sellers on their resumes, and fanfic writers who don't. O, t3h drama. I'm trying to extract myself by replying to comments with: "Yeah, that's your opinion. Whatever." since these people are pretty clearly off the deep end, but I have the sinking feeling that this is doomed to end up on fandom_wank.

It's still cold out there, but not quite as bad as yesterday. It's also not as cold inside as it was yesterday. The barn animals that walk like accountants are evidently taking the graffiti-ized sign on the print room door (I scribbled over the word "mostly" before "closed", so that the sign now reads PLEASE KEEP THIS DOOR MOSTLY CLOSED) seriously.

Comments

[433.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who was a reader for a publisher, and let me tell you: Most unpublished writers are unpublished for a reason.

[rihan-elric.livejournal.com]

And thats why I stay away from fanfic, because it almost always comes back to HP, irregardless of the fanfic, and I view most as elitist bastards that think they can do better then a fully published author and a team of editors.

And then they wonder why the masses won't take them seriously.

[luned.livejournal.com]

Yes, a team of first readers may have helped, but it wasn't the team that they were suggesting. ;) The later HP books are flawed works, but I'm not about to say that any fanfic is better. I don't think the quality of that has improved in five years.

(And I can think of a pro who did write HP fanfic. Her professional work is far, far better than most of her fanfic, and better than all of her HP stuff. and if I wanted overdramatic, angsty BL, that's what pro work is for, gaaaack)

[redmartel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for pointing out that site, fandom_wank. I read down to where the WoW players were complaining about being banned because they used glider bots(whatever the hell that is). They were told not to do it, they did it, they got booted.

They cry like babies.

I was laughing so hard I nearly pissed my pants.