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[sheenaghpugh]

Did a quick interview-by-email for Metro on this yesterday, some of which is in this article. If I'd known at the time what Ewan Morrison was saying, I might have pointed out more forcefully that "originality" and "literary quality" are a long way from being synonyms and that mixing two widely disparate source properties wasn't first invented in the internet age. As for "They don’t know about story structure and they don’t know about characters"... don't get me started... I wonder how much, if any, he's read.

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[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I am doing a fair job of ignoring the whole thing...

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they asked someone who knew what they were talking about.

I'm pretty sure that all Amazon is going to get for its money is Mary Sue vampire fic by 12-15 year olds (as opposed to hardcore gay porn by 40 year old housewives - which seem to be the only two forms of fanfic acknowledged by the media).

Still, at least my 'FanLib' icon is getting some use!

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Fan Fic without Sex? I thought that Fan Fic was made of nothing else but various shades of Slash.

[sheenaghpugh]

That's another common misconception, I think because the media tends to concentrate on the sex stuff, but I'd take a bet there is actually more het than slash and more gen than either.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Having banned the *one* thing that made Fifty Shades of Grey commercially mainstream profitable (honestly did anyone buy it who wasn't looking for the sex?) makes me breathe a sigh of relief. Hopefully this will fail so fast and so hard that no one else thinks of monetizing fandom (for a while, no one mentions Fanlib's awesome flop, so I guess that's been forgot.)

[emma lee (from livejournal.com)]

That'll be the same Ewan Morrison who wrote this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/13/fan-fiction-fifty-shades-grey proving he doesn't get fanfic at all. Via twitter I pointed him in the direction of "The Democratic Genre".

[sheenaghpugh]

My, that was fascinating, rather in the same way an approaching train might be... "There were no fans in the middle ages, and there were also no authors." Well, well. As Kenneth Williams informed us in Carry On Dick, any fool can make fatuous generalisations.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I saw the interview while heading home from work and picking up the Metro. You talked sense and that other bloke talked inflammatory Bolsheviks. I don't know what he's on. Granted some fanfic is crap, but he's incredibly up his own arse.

[sheenaghpugh]

One quote from my bit that got lost on the cutting-room floor was " There is good and bad fic - and indeed brilliant and appalling fic - just as there is in any genre, literary fiction included. "