Honestly, I think the whole “don’t pay the writers” thing boils down to the notion that everybody thinks they can write. It’s the old saw about the novelist at a cocktail party having to hear someone say, for the millionth time, “I’d love to write a book someday.”
Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”
We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.
And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.
Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book.
This goes well beyond fandom, but man, I would’ve hoped fandom would know better.
***REBLOGS AGGRESSIVELY***
bisexuals are always tired that’s a fact
i think??? i’m finally over tumblr???
I’ve finally had sex with someone who wasn’t Chris. I feel like I’m cleansed. But now the guy is acting weird and making me feel insecure even though he said he’d see me soon. I hate over-analyzing everything.
all of my unattainable dreams are coming true??? honestly i lost the man and i’m here reaching goals. i got rid of that extra weight and now i can soar? this is cheesy but like??? AH!?!?!?
sending the guy i like almost nudes is really fun and liberating i love that i’m single again and get to experience this shit again only it’s better this time because i’m not 17 like i was at the beginning of my last relationship
