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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 498927" data-attributes="member: 5171">I agree with both sides here, and disagree with both marginal extreme positions.I'm a professional writer -- three short fiction publications, and another one coming from Strange Horizons in February. I am well aware that selling a short story is not going to pay for my month's rent. Selling a short story at a professional level gets you a nice celebratory dinner and a few extra juice smoothies.  A few magazines, like Sci-Fiction, pay more, but by and large, we're still at three cents.So I completely agree with the people who are against niggling attacks on honest mistakes and minor errors.At the same time, I work darn hard on my stories, and get annoyed when I see a story with an obvious plothole or other non-subjective problems get into print. I can completely agree with the people who are against putting out garbage and then claiming that they don't make enough money to do a good job.I think that most of us agree that gaming writers don't get paid enough, and that some people are spoiled in terms of their complaints.  I think we can also agree that there's some garbage being produced, and the defense only stretches so far.Heck, I make typos, I make formatting goofs. I'm not going to get less enjoyment out of a book because an NPC's stat block uses dashes instead of colons. I WILL get less enjoyment out of a book if pages 6-17 are missing.So perhaps rather than attacking each other and staking out extreme opposed viewpoints, we should thank both sides for their posts, acknowledge the truth of both sides, and move on?-Tacky</blockquote>

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