& a different poster, in reply: the first post is dumb because, like, to take a non-controversia
& a different poster, in reply: the first post is dumb because, like, to take a non-controversial stance that will not rub up against anyone’s fandoms, Lin Carter is a fucking terrible writer. I’m sure he was an okay person, but he was not good at writing. Which leads into the last sentence of the second tweet: why would you write “‘bad’ writer/person”! being bad at writing is a value-neutral trait! people who are bad at writing can be good people! people who are good at writing are often bad people! the larger problem is, i think, overidentification with the works one has produced – I get it, obviously, do we think I don’t feel rejections as a blow? but an editor not liking something I wrote doesn’t mean they don’t like me; and someone saying on twitter, where they should have the reasonable expectation that X won’t see it, “X is a bad writer” doesn’t mean they hate X personally! And I don’t know, people are saying that saying a piece of writing is bad means that you’re slighting people who love it, but honestly, loving things that are bad is also value-neutral – I love many things that are bad, and would not be upset if you pointed out that they were bad. I just really don’t get the drive to only like things that everyone agrees are good, in part because there aren’t any – if it’s true that the only thing that matters about a piece of art is how it makes you feel (which I do not agree with) then why does it matter that someone says it’s bad? -- source link
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