The author is not your bitch
May. 14th, 2009 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalGood 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.
"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.
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Date: May. 14th, 2009 11:39 pm (UTC):P
*thinks of something else she wanted to say but comes up with nothing*
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Date: May. 14th, 2009 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 15th, 2009 12:00 am (UTC)I don't think I've ever demanded an update from an author. I've probably written something like 'I hope you update soon' but I've chatted with enough authors on the cbox at SR to know it's not an easy process. Being a beta has also made me see that.
*needs to go back to that shop and get s3 of VM for 30 euros even if it's a bit expensive*
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Date: May. 15th, 2009 01:38 am (UTC)And I wholeheartedly support any purchasing of VM! (Bonus points for the Chuck icon, too.)
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Date: May. 15th, 2009 05:54 am (UTC)I have a 22 page chapter to beta and a whole house to clean before my mum comes home (see my LJ about that if you want) and I have slept 3 hours. *does the dance of the tired mum/beta*
Enjoy the Chuck icon. ^_^
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Date: May. 15th, 2009 04:39 am (UTC)