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21/3/03 00:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schmericaI've never understood the "we must encourage the newbies!" phenomena, really, myself. Part of it, I think, may just me liking the idea of things being based on merit; part of it might just be discomfort with the mindset that people deserve something, and we have a responsibility to give it to them; part of it might be the fact that I want to think (and hope) that any comments or appreciations I got when I was a newbie was in fact sincere, and not just some "duty" to pat me on the back; part of it might just the simple way I have it sorted in my mind.
Some writers suck. Lots of newbies suck. Of course, established writers suck, too. I don't feel like encouraging people whom I don't enjoy, simply because of their new status, or because of the vague possibility that they may become good someday.
I like good writers, and good writing. Victoria made a comment in her entry about how good fic gets noticed, and while that's not a hard fast rule, of course (dude, there's always way underrated people), it is true to some extent.
I remember getting the email announcement for Koi's "Mercy" back in the summer, and thinking, when I didn't recognize the name, "Hmm. This is probably going to suck, but I'm bored, so. Might as well give it a try." I can easily think of quite a few other people where the circumstances were similar; they wrote good things, people passed around their names, more people read them, and you know, good things happened all around.
I don't know if I actually have a point here or not.
Some writers suck. Lots of newbies suck. Of course, established writers suck, too. I don't feel like encouraging people whom I don't enjoy, simply because of their new status, or because of the vague possibility that they may become good someday.
I like good writers, and good writing. Victoria made a comment in her entry about how good fic gets noticed, and while that's not a hard fast rule, of course (dude, there's always way underrated people), it is true to some extent.
I remember getting the email announcement for Koi's "Mercy" back in the summer, and thinking, when I didn't recognize the name, "Hmm. This is probably going to suck, but I'm bored, so. Might as well give it a try." I can easily think of quite a few other people where the circumstances were similar; they wrote good things, people passed around their names, more people read them, and you know, good things happened all around.
I don't know if I actually have a point here or not.
