Do they think there is a magic writing fairy that comes along and slips the good stories under some writers pillows and not others? Sort of a reverse Tooth Fairy?
Where is she! Where is the rotten little tease?
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 4:43:00 pm PST #3565 of 10000
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askye - Feb 11, 2003 4:44:02 pm PST #3566 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
The bitch sure as hell passed me over when I lost the last draft of my story.
Consuela - Feb 11, 2003 4:44:40 pm PST #3567 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And the Good Writers, the BNF writers or whatever are treated special by the Magic Writing Fairy and the rest of them are gipped?
Now that is a take on the whole Clique Wars that I hadn't come across before. It's not that there's a Conspiracy, it's that the better writers are unjustly gifted.
::snicker::
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 4:46:01 pm PST #3568 of 10000
brillig
I think the rec system at BBF is remarkably sensible. Unless you've got a cadre of people who always rec each other's stuff, it guarantees that at least three people liked a piece.
askye - Feb 11, 2003 4:47:56 pm PST #3569 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Goes with the whole "everyone should be a winner" crap that keeps floating around in schools and other places.
I'm sorry but no not every can be a winner. Some people are better, some people have more talent, some people work much harder.
That's life. You learn to deal with it.
I would love to do things that required really, really good hand eye coordination but I can't. And that's life. And I don't demand that the whole damn world be rearranged so that it looks like I am good at it.
P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2003 4:49:17 pm PST #3570 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Now that is a take on the whole Clique Wars that I hadn't come across before. It's not that there's a Conspiracy, it's that the better writers are unjustly gifted.
I think the Person In Question would perhaps think of herself as the latter, which is why she must protect the poor wee less blessed. It's just some BNFs who give the rest of you bad names. Grr.
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 4:49:18 pm PST #3571 of 10000
brillig
My current reply to the snarky "You must think you're special!" is a calm, "Yes, yes, I do." Everyone wants to be a winner, but they don't want anyone else to be a winner, not deep down.
Consuela - Feb 11, 2003 4:57:36 pm PST #3572 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You guys are making me want to join this list, just for the trainwreck of it all.
P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2003 5:00:23 pm PST #3573 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
If you read Buffyverse, it's a good list. Most of the time.
It's also about 1,000 members strong.
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 5:02:01 pm PST #3574 of 10000
brillig
I don't get the emails, but I peek into the group occasionally. And, yes, I search from my nom de plume to see if anything of mine's been recced lately.
Yes, I am shallow.