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Jim's stand on fic?
Shecky:
--- Quote from: Morraeon on January 06, 2009, 07:18:44 PM ---Heh! Just from his interviews that I've heard (audio and one or two video interviews), he seems like as great a storyteller in person as he is a writer, so if I ever get lucky to meet him, I'll be sure to ask. I have a feeling it's as good a story as the one about Terry Prachett playfully yelping and diving under a table when someone told him she was a fanfic writer.
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Dude likes to talk. Fortunately, he's good at it and REALLY enjoys it - and it shows.
meg_evonne:
At MileHi he read about an hour worth from the beginning of Turn Coat off his laptop. Worth the entire trip just for that part!
Tribblechomper:
--- Quote from: Morraeon on January 05, 2009, 09:33:40 PM ---Things like "Harry's long lost twin sister who's never mentioned in the books and OMG SHEEZ JSUT AZ POWAHFULL @ MAGICK!!!11", or fics with Justin DuMorne/Morningway molesting Harry as a kid, or Michael being warped into a rabid fanatic who eats babies, or Thomas getting deboched into a weepy emo cutter because aren't all vampires that way? Trust me, I used to hang out on the Godawful Fanfiction Forum and I've seen some pretty sick stuff that the fankiddies cook up...
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Where can I find this? I need to indulge my inner masochist...things like the heretofore unknown twin sister who comes in from nowhere and kicks Harry's a*s at magic (known in the biz as a Mary Sue story), and who bears a suspicious resemblance to the fanfic author...stuff like what you describe; it's like the argument that says we cannot truly ban/erase all Evil, as then we would have no measuring stick by which to establish how wonderful Good is.
Really bad fanfic makes the most formulaic, same-plotline-every-book author look like Stephen King.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: Tribblechomper on January 07, 2009, 01:57:33 AM ---Where can I find this? I need to indulge my inner masochist...things like the heretofore unknown twin sister who comes in from nowhere and kicks Harry's a*s at magic (known in the biz as a Mary Sue story), and who bears a suspicious resemblance to the fanfic author...stuff like what you describe; it's like the argument that says we cannot truly ban/erase all Evil, as then we would have no measuring stick by which to establish how wonderful Good is.
Really bad fanfic makes the most formulaic, same-plotline-every-book author look like Stephen King.
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I believe the URL is http://www.asdvasdasdnklasdnklasdjklasdasdfjklasdfjklasdfasdfasdfjklasdvklavkjfv
kavnsdkanasdfjkvnas;vnaskdjvnaskjdvnask;jdvna;skjdvnas;kjvnasl;kjdvnaskjdvnsl;jthisisahint.net. Be warned, though, the things that get linked to the forum can be brain-breakingly horrible...
Guardian 452:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on January 07, 2009, 12:00:07 AM ---At MileHi he read about an hour worth from the beginning of Turn Coat off his laptop. Worth the entire trip just for that part!
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Jim was supposed to do a reading in Toronto, but asked us if we'd prefer a Q & A session instead. He said that he felt a little wierd reading his own work!
He also said that if he starts to read, he'll wind up doing voices and (according to him) it gets a little creepy.
So, any voices? I have to know as his saying that got a lot of us really curious!
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