[shrugs] Didn't read the original post, but I recently got a random "thank you" from a newbie fic writer for an essay I'd done on common fic things that I think are mistakes, why they bug me, and how not to do them. She said she was just starting out and found it helpful. So, I'd say yeah, there's an audience for this sort of thing, though it may not be a big one, of new authors who don't necessarily know it already, but want to.
Plus, people tend to pick up their sense of what's appropriate ettiquette in a given community from what they see everybody else doing. There are a *lot* of not-so-good writers out there, and they talk a lot. SO IMHO there's some point to bitching, aside from lowering one's own blood pressure and maybe amusing the choir, just because it makes clear to newbies that We're Not All Like That.
At that point they can choose up sides like the rest of us. :) But it might encourage more folks to revise/proofread/beta etc. if they knew that it was a) expected and b) appreciated, at least by some of us. And they're not gonna know unless we speak up and keep speaking up. We can't really assume they've already seen the other rant we did on the other mailing list two years ago, 'cause newbies.
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Date: 2003-04-16 10:06 am (UTC)Plus, people tend to pick up their sense of what's appropriate ettiquette in a given community from what they see everybody else doing. There are a *lot* of not-so-good writers out there, and they talk a lot. SO IMHO there's some point to bitching, aside from lowering one's own blood pressure and maybe amusing the choir, just because it makes clear to newbies that We're Not All Like That.
At that point they can choose up sides like the rest of us. :) But it might encourage more folks to revise/proofread/beta etc. if they knew that it was a) expected and b) appreciated, at least by some of us. And they're not gonna know unless we speak up and keep speaking up. We can't really assume they've already seen the other rant we did on the other mailing list two years ago, 'cause newbies.
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