Godawful wank follows pro writer home
The Godawful board is always good for a laugh, and just lately I've been following the discussion around pro TV writer Lee Goldberg. The original discussion can be seen here.

Lee Goldberg, to do him justice, bows out of Godawful when he realises that he's made a mistake in posting there at all. However, he follows up his original articles with a further three in his blog, here, and here and here and here where he quotes his brother in an attempt to fight off the evil fanficcers.

In reading these, don't miss the interventions of one David Montgomery - without him, there wouldn't be wank here at all - Lee Goldberg merely repeats his sincerely held view that fan ficition is a pointless waste of talent. He's entitled to this view, but does not appear to understand that others may have a different opinion and are no less entitled to that. David Montgomery (who he?) seems to make it his mission in life to make Lee Goldberg look a complete twat.

On the other hand Goldberg does not seem to want to take the oft-repeated advice that he approach the websites and ISPs of those hosting Diagnosis: Murder fanfiction and ask them to remove it. It seems (to me, anyway) that he'd rather whinge about the unfairness of life.

ETA: As I wouldn't want anyone to miss it, David Montgomery has drawn to my attention his new outpouring of splooge article, here. I think he's massively wrong in thinking that fanfiction has lots of writers but not many readers. I would direct him to the Pit of Voles, but it's...well, suffice it to say that nobody deserves that.