You're right, though, about if it's not professionally, it's not a big deal. But isn't it weird sometimes to see someone with that much talent and be supremely good at writing, and they don't want to ever try to publish anything? o_o;; It boggles my brain, but I guess whatever floats your boat.
One of the best writers I knew in University just stopped writing. It made me weep. I asked him about it at one point and he smiled and shrugged. "I have nothing I really want to say." Just that. So... I guess, yes, it boggles my brain, but more in a selfish way -- I wanted him to write because I liked to read his writing, and I liked the way he looked at the universe, because it was so different from the way I could. I felt it as a loss, as a reader.
And yes, if people are asking you for advice, because they want to write professionally it's an entirely different thing; I wasn't certain, because you seemed to be talking about fanfic writers, many of whom do want to write professionally for a living, but many of whom don't.
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Date: 2008-03-29 05:02 am (UTC)deal. But isn't it weird sometimes to see someone with that much talent
and be supremely good at writing, and they don't want to ever try to
publish anything? o_o;; It boggles my brain, but I guess whatever floats
your boat.
One of the best writers I knew in University just stopped writing. It made me weep. I asked him about it at one point and he smiled and shrugged. "I have nothing I really want to say." Just that. So... I guess, yes, it boggles my brain, but more in a selfish way -- I wanted him to write because I liked to read his writing, and I liked the way he looked at the universe, because it was so different from the way I could. I felt it as a loss, as a reader.
And yes, if people are asking you for advice, because they want to write professionally it's an entirely different thing; I wasn't certain, because you seemed to be talking about fanfic writers, many of whom do want to write professionally for a living, but many of whom don't.