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I would disagree that his personal style makes Stephen King a poor writer. By adhering to an overly rigid structure for literature, you run the risk of sacrificing creativity for form. While form has a place in things like sonnets and waka, one of my absolute favorite writers, Samuel R Delany, tossed the style book out the window when he wrote some of his most amazing works. "Dhalgren" can still leave me breathless, and "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" is sheer gorgeousness. On the other hand, the relentless predictability of Barbara Cartlandt is what gave romance writing such a bad name.

Well, that, and the fact that everything she owned was bright pink.

Move the female characters out of the way and suddenly there's more "reason" for the male characters to make with the chocolate cha cha. It's generic slashfic 101!

Oh no, I was meaning that I don't share any of the writer's writing without their permission, just the writer's name and the site where I found them. I've actually had one of my stories stolen and posted on another site but once I notified the Admin on the site with a link to the story they took it right down. Most Admin on the sites I visit are very tight when it comes to plagiarism. It's nice seeing the community looking out for it's original writings.