Ebert's Law

Ebert's Law as defined by Potter Sue of the Day and Urban Dictionary: ''When you ask somebody to try their own hand at something before criticizing your efforts, you have violated Ebert's Law and lost the argument. Roger Ebert is not a filmmaker, but he knows what he likes and doesn't, and has every right to say so. Similarly, people don't need to be chefs to recognize a good restaurant, or musicians to appreciate a symphony.''

It is still a good idea for PPCers to practice writing in the fandoms they spork badfic in, partly in order to improve their grasp of the canon, partly to improve their general writing skills, partly to increase levels of goodfic to balance out the badfic, but mostly because writing goodfic is fun.