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Originally posted by ManofTheAtom:
Here's a tip:

When you write stories that stay on your hd forever then you're writing them for yourself.

When you write stories that are meant to be published you're writing them for an audience. That means leave the ego at the door, which is what many comic book writers tend to forget.

In the case of fan fic, though, I... almost agree with you. Fan fic is done by the writer for the writer. If others read it then good, if they don't, then it's good too.
So writers aren't allowed to be writers if they're using an alredy existing character and getting published? They suddenly become machines that don't care about anything but moving continuity forward? That's not a writer. If a writer follows a strict continuity, like Geoff Johns in JSA and Mark Waid in Flash, it's because they choose to do so. You talk about "ego" in the negative sense of the word, but what you suggest implies leaving the possitive side of the writer's ego behind as well, that is, what makes him do unique stories and not lame every day crap that gets sold simply because it's cover includes the name of a famous character or a couple of enormous tits (male or female).