In celebration, here's something appropriate for today. Note the brand of the laptop.
When I finally bailed on Pern fandom, newcomers were already making trouble. I suspect the grumbling you heard was from the same people who screwed things up with their adolescent inability to follow rules, and not mess with a good thing.
I guess I'll save all my fanzines as belonging to the now-lost golden age of Pern fanfic. Some of it was good, while a lot of it sucked. But I learned a lot about writing.
And to think my freshman English teacher, the famous Joyce Carol Oates, said I should stick to nonfiction because I could never write a decent piece of fiction.
In celebration, here's something appropriate for today. Note the brand of the laptop.