*sighs* Yeah, Card used to be less of a nutbar. Shame he went so very off the deep end.

Oh goodness yes, and it drives me /nuts/. The worst part is that a lot of fan-artists are complicit with it, because it seems to offer a sort of acceptance by the "professional" writers, and they don't see how offensively patronizing and just plain wrong the whole concept usually is. I've written several journal-essays on how different the skill-set is, between writing origi-fic and fanfic. Neither is "training wheels" for the other, and an origi-author trying to write fic will be right back at square one (as has been demonstrated on many lamentable occasions).