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Jun. 12th, 2006 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusDear author,
If you have to explain in your author's notes just what something you wrote was meant to achieve, clearly you have failed miserably in your original plan to convey whatever it was in the actual story. Perhaps this is telling you something?
I am not grateful to your beta reader (or indeed to you), and you can stop spamming us anytime now...
No love,
Me
If you have to explain in your author's notes just what something you wrote was meant to achieve, clearly you have failed miserably in your original plan to convey whatever it was in the actual story. Perhaps this is telling you something?
I am not grateful to your beta reader (or indeed to you), and you can stop spamming us anytime now...
No love,
Me
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Date: 2006-06-12 07:52 pm (UTC)A friend was explaining to me how he's started reading actual books now, without pictures, and he's quite proud. I was quite proud, too, until he mentioned he'd read the Da Vinci Code. We discussed the book, and it turned out that while he liked it a lot and didn't see many flaws (until I pointed them out) he was quite confused by the choice of actors in the film - none of them represented the characters as he'd seen them in his head while they apparently fitted Dan Brown's image perfectly. And with only the teeniest bit of prompting he said it was a bit crap that the author hadn't managed to get those ideas across to him...
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Date: 2006-06-12 08:01 pm (UTC)YAY!
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Date: 2006-06-13 12:21 pm (UTC)