You are, like, so wrong. Because Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead could be regarded as fanfiction, therefore all fanfiction is that good. And you didn't write Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, so therefore logically you can't complain about me talking about my 'l33t++ PotterSue being a waste of valuable seconds of your life and attention, because unless you can write like Shakespeare (and just wait till you see my contorted claim that Shakespeare could be construed as fanfic) or Tom Stoppard writing Shakespeare you obviously can't tell whether a field is largely shit and stinks. Whereas I WRITE FANFIC, so I can. And I read about someone who wrote fanfiction and got a job on the show's writing team! Where they write fanfiction, only for money. And if you're really good, you can be Kevin J. Anderson and do novelisations of L. Ron Hubbard. And anyway, being a good writer has nothing to do with the hard work of establishing your own characterisation rather than leaving half the effort to ride on reader assumptions. And you must be some sort of elitist. So I'm going to SCREAM AND SCREAM ABOUT HOW GOOD MY FANFIC IS UNTIL I TURN BLUE. And I'm not a whiny little shit with no creativity. How dare you.

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=1227 - "We're trying to encourage a whole new generation that may be writing the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Fifth Element novelizations of tomorrow."

Some things are written to be read. Some are only written to be written. Best not confuse the two.

"That's not writing, that's typing" - Norman Mailer.

Update: Okay, it was Truman Capote, not Mailer. Bugger.