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Feb. 11th, 2006 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyThe reason, I think, that Anne Rice is so uncharitable towards fanficcers (apart from her Jesus complex, which just... let's not go there, shall we?) is that she fears - with good reason, in my opinion - that they could do it better.
The woman thinks she doesn't need an editor, and if sources are correct has managed to mess up ages, dates and even heights throughout her books. I have to go by sources, here, because her attitude to fanfic made me never want to read one of her books... and then I started reading one of her books, and the original reason was replaced with one far more sensible. I don't like the way she writes.
Neil Gaiman on the other hand is very polite about fanfic. He refuses to read it, which is understandable, but he's more than willing to let it go on. I think he has enough confidence in his ideas, not to mention the fact that even if he doesn't do it best, there is always another area at which he can better you. You write fanfic better than him? Well he has graphic novels, screenplays, biographies under his belt, too. There is space enough in the world for more than one Neil Gaiman, because he spreads himself so thin.
There's the added fact that he's written fanfic himself, of course.
It makes me wonder how I'd be, were I ever to write anything. I'd be sure, you see, to use phrases like 'confirmed batchelor' and 'particular friend' in order that everyone might know the characters were shagging like minks even if I were too polite to say it. Considering how nervous it makes me when people write my RP characters better than I do, I don't know if I'd be content enough to let it be; I'd be reading it, either way, because I'm an incredibly shy egotistical attention seeker who lacks in self confidence.
It's fun.
The woman thinks she doesn't need an editor, and if sources are correct has managed to mess up ages, dates and even heights throughout her books. I have to go by sources, here, because her attitude to fanfic made me never want to read one of her books... and then I started reading one of her books, and the original reason was replaced with one far more sensible. I don't like the way she writes.
Neil Gaiman on the other hand is very polite about fanfic. He refuses to read it, which is understandable, but he's more than willing to let it go on. I think he has enough confidence in his ideas, not to mention the fact that even if he doesn't do it best, there is always another area at which he can better you. You write fanfic better than him? Well he has graphic novels, screenplays, biographies under his belt, too. There is space enough in the world for more than one Neil Gaiman, because he spreads himself so thin.
There's the added fact that he's written fanfic himself, of course.
It makes me wonder how I'd be, were I ever to write anything. I'd be sure, you see, to use phrases like 'confirmed batchelor' and 'particular friend' in order that everyone might know the characters were shagging like minks even if I were too polite to say it. Considering how nervous it makes me when people write my RP characters better than I do, I don't know if I'd be content enough to let it be; I'd be reading it, either way, because I'm an incredibly shy egotistical attention seeker who lacks in self confidence.
It's fun.
