The author is not your bitch

Good post from Neil Gaiman for when you get those reviewers who leave comments demanding the next chapter of your fic, or who email/comment on unrelated posts to ask when you'll be posting an update. (Because nothing gets the muse going like someone tugging at your metaphorical sleeve asking, "Is it done yet? How about now? Well, what about now?")

"People are not machines. Writers and artists aren't machines.

You're complaining about George doing other things than writing the books you want to read as if your buying the first book in the series was a contract with him: that you would pay over your ten dollars, and George for his part would spend every waking hour until the series was done, writing the rest of the books for you."

Even more so since, with fanfic, you don't even pay to read it.

Memed again

I swear I've done this one twelve times already, but if you people come up with stuff for me to post about, then I don't have to come up with stuff for me to post about, so everybody wins.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

Except probably not the yaoi thing, because I don't really know what that is. But you get the general idea.