Several people beat me to particular points. To quickly rehash them: writers write, regardless of whether what they write is paid for, or even read, by others. And that this seems to be the point of NaNoWriMo, despite its perhaps overly sarcastic jabs at professional writers. And that lots of people don't want to write, they want to have written -- and NaNoWriMo provides a focus and a goal, both of which help lots of people get past -- or at least, get started on -- that otherwise nebulous desire.
What Ms. Hromic's attitude reminds me of most is the RIAA/Big Music attitude: that Art belongs in the hands of Artists, and that those of us not privileged to belong to the Inner Circle and get paid for dispensing our wisdom possess any right to participate on any creative level whatever. And that all the folks we all know, who make music as amateurs or on small labels, are Morally Unjustified In Their Endeavors, And Shall Freeze In Hell For Them.
Feh.
I have to go rinse out my metaphorical mouth. Even describing that attitude tastes foul. Time to pick up the guitar and finish the song I have been putting off, because I wanted to have written it rather than doing the work of writing. ;-)
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Date: 2003-10-22 02:53 pm (UTC)What Ms. Hromic's attitude reminds me of most is the RIAA/Big Music attitude: that Art belongs in the hands of Artists, and that those of us not privileged to belong to the Inner Circle and get paid for dispensing our wisdom possess any right to participate on any creative level whatever. And that all the folks we all know, who make music as amateurs or on small labels, are Morally Unjustified In Their Endeavors, And Shall Freeze In Hell For Them.
Feh.
I have to go rinse out my metaphorical mouth. Even describing that attitude tastes foul. Time to pick up the guitar and finish the song I have been putting off, because I wanted to have written it rather than doing the work of writing. ;-)