Comment on Dragons meeting by Kooskia

Don't get me wrong on the Mary Sue thing, I can totally see where you're coming from, and in light of other female protagonists that Anne's written since, Lessa is rather underdeveloped. But Lessa was also one of the first strong female leads in the scifi/fantasy genre of the day, one of the reasons people can forgive the character for being rough around the edges. By White Dragon her Mary Sueishness is very much gone and she is a much more complex person.

I was so mad at how Todd screwed the pooch with Dragon Harper  (and in particular how it was very obvious Anne never actually looked at the rough draft despite signing her name to it) that I have never looked up an interview with him. I did once run across a fan blog once, of a woman who had the opportunity to meet both authors Anne at one time in the late 90's and Todd after his mum had died. She had asked Anne about girls on blues, and at the time had said of course they could ride blues, as Kitty Ping never had not played around with the genetics of either blue or greens. Todd, when approached and asked why a dragon changed color from blue to bronze in a matter of three pages told the same fan to piss off. Granted he might have been having a bad day, or this fan might have been rude about asking, but it sounds really bad when a large portion of your readership already notices spelling and grammatical errors, and then the author tells a fan to piss off rather than say 'oh, that was my mistake, I should have caught that during a re-read.'

(I hated Dragon Harper because it was massively unbelievable that the apprentice would learn to master swordfighting in under a week. Also I found the whole relationship with the Lord Holder's daughter, from their meeting, to her repeatided attempt to get into his pants unbelievable. And lastly, I really irritated that he ripped off his mum's plague plot to close out the book and kill off all the characters he no longer felt like writing about. Particularly when in the back of the book he takes about the Great Influenza Pandemic following WWI and how it mirrors the events in his books. But it doesn't, because he doesn't kill off the right age groups he supposedly targeted by using influenza as his plague of choice. )

I apologize for my long winded vitriolic rant, but bad writing really irritates me, particularly when Anne was so stringent that people not write fanfics based in Pern because she didn't want the world sullied by bad writing.

I only started writing my fanfics after I read Todd's stuff. I figured I could at least attempt something a little more professional.