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Date: 2010-05-16 12:10 pm (UTC)Which is indeed the one clear difference between Fanfic and "realfic": you have to apply Sturgeon's law TWICE to Fanfic, because realfic goes through the first filtering in the slush, out of our sight.
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Date: 2010-05-16 06:35 pm (UTC)Or did you mean that 90% of the remainder after the first 90% are eliminated are crap, too? (Effectively 99%).
Never mind, I read the essay. There's still plenty of RealFic crap that gets published because, well, there's a market for it. But a good Sturgeonistic percentage was winnowed out, which doesn't happen for most FanFic.
Which just goes to say (as
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