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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
Nobody worries about the number of bad golfers out there. It's just accepted that they love the game, play it, it drives them a little nuts sometimes but they're not harming anyone. I think writing will become more like that. You'll accept the fact that there are a number of hobbyists who enjoy sharing stories with their friends. Some of them, maybe to their own surprise, will be artists. Most of them won't be. But I don't imagine they will make the world any worse by writing an eBook. Flannery O'Connor aside, why discourage anyone?
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Yeah, that was sort of my reaction too.
Personal tastes being what they are, not everyone even likes Flannery O'Connor, for that matter, so perhaps she shouldn't have been too quick to throw stones at the kids on her lawn.