For me a writer is good enough when he/she manages to "travell me" and you did.
Also for me a writer is good when he writes based on his OWN ideas and not to an idea that someone else invented. Mr Tolkien would start jump up and down in his grave if he could see what is happening with fanfic based on HIS idea. (I wonder to whom I am refering to? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />)
Oh, Lucretia, my dear -- I think I'm in love! Let's see how many people you've just insulted:
Alrik (for writing Star Wars fanfiction; Shaak Ti and the Jedi are hardly his own ideas)
Elliot_Kane (for writing fanfiction, period)
JRR Tolkien (for pulling ideas from Norse and British mythos)
Leather_Raven (and in one single post! Rivellon is hardly her invention, now, is it?)
The whole Larian Studio (Marian admitted, after all, that the fantasy cliches were deliberate; hence, they were basing things on other people's ideas)
I'd make a scathing, snarky remark, but... I think you're doing a brilliant job of mocking yourself here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
