More quotes for the Memories
May. 3rd, 2004 03:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteI love the baking analogy. It's perfect. Just because you don't sell your cookies in a shop is no reason to serve up crap. If you like to bake, you do it the best you can out of personal pride.
It's the same with fan fiction. Presumably a person is writing because they want to tell stories and entertain themselves or an audience. Either way, you want to make it enjoyable to read or the story doesn't come alive. If you don't have enough personal pride to want to write well, don't write at all.
One caution I would extend though...don't anyone wear themselves thin over their fan fiction. I know some people who will learn new things and feel the need to go back and rewrite all of their old fan fiction to match. Put your best effort into your work, but let your mistakes stand as a testament to developing skill. A cookie with a single burnt edge is still tasty and the next batch is always better. --vr2lbast, on how "It's just fanfiction" is not an excuse for quick, badfic.
... And if you always burn your cookies and don't care to try harder, don't serve them to anyone else! Isn't it adding insult to injury to eat a burnt cookie, and then be told, "I don't care if it tastes disgusting, because I didn't make it for you!" ^_^; -- calluna21, in reply to the above.
It's all so true!
It's the same with fan fiction. Presumably a person is writing because they want to tell stories and entertain themselves or an audience. Either way, you want to make it enjoyable to read or the story doesn't come alive. If you don't have enough personal pride to want to write well, don't write at all.
One caution I would extend though...don't anyone wear themselves thin over their fan fiction. I know some people who will learn new things and feel the need to go back and rewrite all of their old fan fiction to match. Put your best effort into your work, but let your mistakes stand as a testament to developing skill. A cookie with a single burnt edge is still tasty and the next batch is always better. --vr2lbast, on how "It's just fanfiction" is not an excuse for quick, badfic.
... And if you always burn your cookies and don't care to try harder, don't serve them to anyone else! Isn't it adding insult to injury to eat a burnt cookie, and then be told, "I don't care if it tastes disgusting, because I didn't make it for you!" ^_^; -- calluna21, in reply to the above.
It's all so true!
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Date: 2004-05-03 07:43 pm (UTC)Technical Support Requeast #001
Date: 2004-05-03 10:59 pm (UTC)In order to not direct link, what you can do is save the image to your own computer, and then upload it to your own webspace-- o_O I can't remember if you have a webpage or not, but if not, I can always host it for ya. o_O One little background image is no KB off my domain... >_>