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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 236340" data-attributes="member: 1288">Okay, this is, indeed, getting a tad melodramatic.If you want to keep your setting all your own, to ensure that nobdy else can ever taint it, that's your business, and your right.But if you're hoping to make a career of this industry, it's not the wisest choice you can make.The reasons have been explained over and over, so I'll not do so again.  And if you don't want to make a career of this, obviously it doesn't much matter either way.What's starting to bug me is the sense that some people feel they're superior for refusing to submit.  (No, I'm not pointing fingers or naming names.)  Those of us who did submit aren't "selling out."  We're not whoring ourselves to WotC, or betraying any nebulous artistic ideal.  We're trying to do something with an idea that we feel (or at least hope) others will appreciate.The decision not to submit isn't the "wrong" one*.  It's just as valid as the decision to submit.  But neither is it worth any particuar respect.  It's just a choice--and one that I, to be perfectly frank, am getting a bit tired of people justifying**.  If you chose to submit, great.  If you didn't, great.  If you have to try to convince other people that you made the right choice, is it possible you're actually trying to convince yourself that you didn't screw up?(* Well, if you decided not to submit because you don't want to "give up" your world, it's not the wrong choice.  If you didn't submit because you think you can make more money on your own, it really was the wrong choice.  Sorry to be so blunt, but there it is.)(** Note the word "justifying."  I didn't say people should stop talking about it, or stop posting about it.  Just stop trying to validate it.  It's a valid choice--just not the right one for a lot of people.)</blockquote>

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