Ah the BBC …

[blamebrampton]

Nobody poshes it up politely quite like the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz: 'And then, there is the issue of readers becoming authors, dramatically illustrated by the extraordinary success of EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that started life at a website for amateur writers responding to their favourite novels.'

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[shezan.livejournal.com]

Luvverly. (Was it "responding" or what you've typed?)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That was his exact editorial quote. Bless his cotton socks! He went on to interview someone who I have forgotten who said that it's the beginning of the end because we rely on writers to create new imaginative worlds, not recycle old ones, but he himself stayed above such common debate.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Bless...

(My question was whether "reponding" was a typo or some fancy word you are allowed to use on Radio Four.)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh, with me, it's almost always a typo. Never break your hand and brain at the same time!

Thank you, will fix. BRAIN FULL OF SHEDS! And then tomorrow it will be brain full of concussion research (oh the irony). By the weekend I will only be good for knitting, which is just as well, as I am way behind there.