Yes...I gotta admit, the "training wheels" principle, I understand the idea, and it is true for some of us. But it's making two completely false assumptions - one, that every fanfic writer has ambitions of going pro (when that's simply not the case, nor should it be; art is not the lesser for being made as a hobby); and two, that transformative works take less creativity or effort or talent or whatever than original work. Which is total BS, considering that pretty much *all* art is transformative to some degree - you'd be hard-pressed to find a novel that wasn't inspired by other fiction to some extent. Fanfic is just more honest about it!
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winterfish
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Date: 2010-05-14 06:34 pm (UTC)