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dublubby314:

My mother says that fanfiction doesn’t count as reading because “it isn’t nearly as good as the stuff that’s published. You’re not going to find something online that will win a Booker Prize.”
Please reblog if you count fan fiction as reading, or if the fanfiction you’ve read is equally as good as published novels. I want to see the figures.

*crushes mouse while hitting reblog button*

There have been published books with terrrible writing.

There have been countless fanfictions written w elegance and a far better handle on grammar and syntax than certain publish works that have somehow warrented films

I’ve read fan fiction that surpasses so-called “real” fiction.

It is a total myth that a work of fiction is superior simply because somebody’s paying for it. I’ve read fanfic I would stack against any published work, and published novels as bad as the worst fanfic I’ve ever come across.

Also, if you’re moving your damn eyes across the page of words, that’s reading.

by OP’s mom’s logic, Fifty Shades suddenly became good just because it found a publisher. not to mention all the great timeless stories that have been written before things like “publishing companies” or the booker price even existed.