Though I have to say that personally, I think mocking bad fanfic is a waste of time and effort. Why dignify the really bad stuff with comment at all? An echoing silence will probably do more to discourage the awful writers than any amount of mockery, which can always be translated (by the recipient) into, "I'm an ARTIST and they just don't UNDERSTAND me!"[1] The ones who are capable of learning from politely-phrased constructive criticism will, and the others are lost causes anyhow.
[1] To which my response tends to be this... which, I might note, is on one of the faculty office doors at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.
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Date: 2005-01-18 08:48 pm (UTC)Though I have to say that personally, I think mocking bad fanfic is a waste of time and effort. Why dignify the really bad stuff with comment at all? An echoing silence will probably do more to discourage the awful writers than any amount of mockery, which can always be translated (by the recipient) into, "I'm an ARTIST and they just don't UNDERSTAND me!"[1] The ones who are capable of learning from politely-phrased constructive criticism will, and the others are lost causes anyhow.
[1] To which my response tends to be this... which, I might note, is on one of the faculty office doors at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.