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A little snippage...
Fanfic authors are not machines. They are people. They are not here to
serve
you. They are here to enjoy themselves.
at all the thoughtless nagging to WANT to write.
Now....those of us who put a lot of time and effort into our fics are
proud
of our work. We sat down, we spent hours of our lives crafting something
of
ourselves, our ideas, thoughts, and feelings, and transferring them into
words, weaving in our favorite characters from our favorite series. Those
of
us most confident in our work put it out on display for all to see, and
hopefully appreciate along with.
Now, if I saw someone come along and suddenly "seize" Onna: Red Side or
Suiseiki and start continuing it without even so much as a word to me, or
if
someone even came to me and asked if they could continue it in my stead, I
would be HIGHLY insulted. It's *my* work, not *their* work. It's *my*
right
to continue it or abandon it as I please. Nobody but me has any right to
say
what should and should not be done with my work.
Amen
I can't help but agree, since right now I'm completely unable to work on ANY
of my stories, and if anyone touched them they'd be in extreme peril.
Kara