t memememe I frequently write on the bus, then post stories with only a basic run through for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and typos. I think I've only really had three stories beta'd. Not sure what that makes me. t /memememe

Alison, I never thought that your stuff was bad. Far from it. It has always been interesting, well-written stuff. Your first drafts, as you well know, just need organisation. And they pull together beautifully.

He's also donated millions to charity.

I dunno. I don't think I've ever inspired anyone to be achieve, or change their circumstances for the better. And I don't think that should be disregarded as a positive effect on the world.

There's lots of ways to affect people.

I've got a virus and am about as headachey and twelve-hours-of-sleep-exhausted as someone can be and still propped up in front of the computer; so I'm going to be quick & make this a longer LJ post later.

I'm being flip. It's one of the enduring arguments of fandom. Do people have the right to criticize publicly-posted stories, where they should do so, what rights the author should have, "if you can't say something nice...", etc, etc.

I am *fascinated* by this issue, personally. Not in a debate-it-on-a-list way, but. At what point does someone change over to being they themselves a public text? If a Buffista, someone I interacted with every day, wrote a story that was (I thought) flaming horrible (I am of course speaking hypothetically), I wouldn't be able to insult it flat-out and roundly in one of these threads, because this board is a personal space, and an attack on one's work in a personal space means an attack on one's self, as well as some other things. But if someone I don't know personally writes a story & it's bad &c, I feel completely right in critiquing it publically, because they sent it to lists and archived it, and fandom in whole is a *public* space, and impersonal critique is a vital feature of public spaces.

etc etc. this relates to things in wider literary-world workings, and the question of BNF-ism, of course, but I'm aware of how odd I'm sounding, so I'll stop now.

Hey Ms. Lizard, I'm virus-ridden, too, and have the honor of having passed it on to my pals that I had over to watch Buffy and SV last night. I hope they think it was worth it.

Just to let you know, there is a post buried way in Literary now about our mututal love for Hood by Emma Donoghue. In case you don't read that thread. I {heart} that book.

Back on topic, I've read BBF, and it is whack.

I'm feeling better that they weren't accepting new people when I tried to join in last year. Life is too short.

I'm just reading it, as of last night. I feel the dirty wrongness for joining just to rubberneck, but I plan on sticking around after it all blows over.

I'll rec, I'll be good, I promise.

I was rec'd this morning. Always nice to see in the inbox.

I have ficced. Farscape, spoiler-free for anything past Season 3, and damned light on any spoilery content anyway.

Just to let you know, there is a post buried way in Literary now about our mututal love for Hood by Emma Donoghue.

(Woo. Yes, I don't read Literary [some people can't discuss politics online without getting frustrated and upset and alienating all of their friends. I discovered that I can't discuss books] but I love Hood. It's my favorite of her works.)

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