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.'

Comments

[azurelunatic]

You can hold respect and affection for the creative impulse and the community support that allowed such a (legitimately terrible) work to get well-known, while recognizing HOLY LEGITIMATELY TERRIBLE WRITING, BATMAN.

Terrible writing is a thing for every fandom ever. :D