I already said I wasn't. I thought I was having an interesting conversation about writing and the different forms it can take, and what draws different authors to different aspects of storytelling.
Evidently, we were not having the same conversation, and you are not happy with the way the thread has gone. I think you could have expressed that in a more courteous way, without resorting to sarcasm and what is, frankly, a pretty damned rude tone.
And I am not saying, nor have I actually said at all during this conversation, that one type of writing is better than another.
My apologies, then, for misunderstanding you. You said a couple times that you thought it was a shame that people didn't try original fic. You said: I got back into writing after a long absence thanks to fic, so I get how it gets people's feet wet..., which I took to mean that you saw fic as something beginning writers did, or writers who had become rusty, and they worked in fic until they graduated to "real" writing. You have since corrected me. This is not how you feel. I did not come to my earlier interpretation of your comments maliciously, or to try and provoke an argument, as you've implied in your most recent comment.
I still can't figure out what I said that made you yell at me like this, or speak to me in such a condescending manner.
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Date: 2011-02-25 04:02 am (UTC)I already said I wasn't. I thought I was having an interesting conversation about writing and the different forms it can take, and what draws different authors to different aspects of storytelling.
Evidently, we were not having the same conversation, and you are not happy with the way the thread has gone. I think you could have expressed that in a more courteous way, without resorting to sarcasm and what is, frankly, a pretty damned rude tone.
And I am not saying, nor have I actually said at all during this conversation, that one type of writing is better than another.
My apologies, then, for misunderstanding you. You said a couple times that you thought it was a shame that people didn't try original fic. You said: I got back into writing after a long absence thanks to fic, so I get how it gets people's feet wet..., which I took to mean that you saw fic as something beginning writers did, or writers who had become rusty, and they worked in fic until they graduated to "real" writing. You have since corrected me. This is not how you feel. I did not come to my earlier interpretation of your comments maliciously, or to try and provoke an argument, as you've implied in your most recent comment.
I still can't figure out what I said that made you yell at me like this, or speak to me in such a condescending manner.