you know, i hated that comment too, but because of the training wheels aspect. it's not like we'd tell writers of detective fiction to take their training wheels of to write romance, y'know :-)
to me, they are two very differnt things. slytherlynx used to always talk about the difficulties she had in writing original, b/c fanfic atrophied her world building abilities. but there are things you never learn in OF that are central to FF such as staying in character.
it's a different type of writing, which is why i don't think one can or ought to be the measuring stick of the other. it's like apples and oranges...yes, they are both fruits, they both need good grammar, style, a certain sense of originality to be good...but they are also a different genus at heart!
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to me, they are two very differnt things. slytherlynx used to always talk about the difficulties she had in writing original, b/c fanfic atrophied her world building abilities. but there are things you never learn in OF that are central to FF such as staying in character.
it's a different type of writing, which is why i don't think one can or ought to be the measuring stick of the other. it's like apples and oranges...yes, they are both fruits, they both need good grammar, style, a certain sense of originality to be good...but they are also a different genus at heart!