In a comment to a post about fanfic in Justing Larbalastier's blog:
"Fanfic is the equivalent of what musicians and visual artists are often encouraged to do, which is imitate the style of others on the way to developing their own. And no one thinks it’s weird or a waste of talent for someone who plays the saxophone or sings or plays the piano, to sit down at a party and play a song that someone else wrote, not for money but just to entertain the people around them or maybe just to please themselves."
This is awesome and succinctly captures exactly what I believe. Go forth and read. All the comments are pretty decent (only one or two idjits).
This is awesome and succinctly captures exactly what I believe. Go forth and read. All the comments are pretty decent (only one or two idjits).
