Reading and writing.

[foxmonkey]

So...if you write fic, do you read it as well?

I'm asking because I read a comment in a community where the poster (a writer) said that she rarely reads other people's fic unless it's recommended. This just boggles the hell out of me. I get the theory (bad!fic abounds!) but...well, I just can't wrap my brain around it.

Maybe I'm just a Philistine who'll read anything that's put in her path. ;-) Well, not everything, I do have standards, but, yeah. I don't need a rec to read. Hmmm. Just wondering if this is more common than not.

Comments

[ibythetide.livejournal.com]

I read almost everything, my lj memories are full of fic from multiple fandoms and the quality ranges from okay to wow. I do have my own criteria as to what I can and cannot read. There has to be separated paragraphs, for example, and characterization has to make sense. I still read bad!fic, but that varies too.

she rarely reads other people's fic unless it's recommended

I feel that those kind of comments, and I've seen them in all fandoms, generally denote a disconnect/feeling of being above the average fiction that liters the internet. I don't understand it and it kind of annoys me. A lot.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I feel that those kind of comments, and I've seen them in all fandoms, generally denote a disconnect/feeling of being above the average fiction that liters the internet.

You've said, much more eloquently than I was thinking, just what I was feeling.