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Some very wise thinking
Mar. 12th, 2009 10:01 amThis articles on authors who blog and recent nastiness regarding George RR Martin by Guy Gavriel Kay (author of Tigana and more recently, Ysabel) seems very wise and reasoned to me.
As a yet unknown, unpublished hack who blogs about her unknown, unpublished hackiness, I have to say that I agree with Kay when he says:
( Discussion beneath the cut of fans, writers, of the responsibilities and problems of writers who blog, of blogs as personal versus professional spaces, and of how it feeds into RaceFail as well as other things. And wow, did this go to a tl;dr kind of place in a hurry. )
As a yet unknown, unpublished hack who blogs about her unknown, unpublished hackiness, I have to say that I agree with Kay when he says:
Disturbing as this is, in some ways, I find it difficult to come down hard on readers of a writer who has steadily made him or herself "available" to them.
( Discussion beneath the cut of fans, writers, of the responsibilities and problems of writers who blog, of blogs as personal versus professional spaces, and of how it feeds into RaceFail as well as other things. And wow, did this go to a tl;dr kind of place in a hurry. )
