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July 25, 2013
Rebloggable-d by request: Why I Don’t Want To Look At Any Fan Fiction
Why exactly is it that you don’t want to see any fan fiction?
Because I might accidentally steal something somebody else thought of, and that would break my heart / SERIOUSLY annoy me.
I am a very, very acquisitive writer. It’s how I got to whatever level of good I presently occupy: reading good literature and imitating what its creators did and how they did it. As a result, very little that’s worthwhile is safe from me. Anything that’s any good at all, I internalize very thoroughly. And change… yes, of course… because I can’t let anything be once it’s inside my head. But being aware of this tendency, I am therefore also super concerned about accidentally lifting other people’s creative material.
This (for example) is why I haven’t read the Harry Potter books…
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