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britneyspearsatemyshorts said:

thats a different point than your first one you said the only difference is the paycheck not true. if the quality was the same the publishers would be takinbg the free stuff.



That's doesn't work, BSAMS. If I wrote some Spider-Man stories in my free time and Marvel decided they were good, they couldn't just take them since I originally did them for free. They would have to still pay me. Then I would be a published Spider-Man writer and not a fanfic writer.


As for the thread as a whole, I agree with Fused. You might say that a comic book writer doesn't write as well as this fanfic writer or this other writer (who may have his own properties or not) but the difference between someone who writes for his own joy and a professional is, as Fused said, a paycheck.

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