Susan, are they all fairly new at the craft? Or are there some seasoned writers in there?
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
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deborah grabien - Oct 27, 2003 7:32:01 pm PST #2423 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan W. - Oct 27, 2003 7:47:01 pm PST #2424 of 10001
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There's one seasoned writer, who's been publishing short stories off and on for quite some time. He's actually the instructor who runs the community college class our group grew out of. But he attends spottily because of his teaching commitments. Everyone else is at least as much of a newbie as I am, and arguably more so, because I have actually proved I can finish something now.
deborah grabien - Oct 27, 2003 7:49:04 pm PST #2425 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Then I suspect there may be an element (I know, I'm fixing on the obvious) of not knowing what they're really supposed to be critiquing outside their particular personal taste, in the easy-on-you.
Sometimes, though, the work is just damned good and there isn't much to critique....
Susan W. - Oct 27, 2003 7:54:29 pm PST #2426 of 10001
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Sometimes, though, the work is just damned good and there isn't much to critique....
One likes to hope....
The seasoned writer often tells me how precise my work is. Always makes me feel kind of damned with faint praise, that.
deborah grabien - Oct 27, 2003 7:55:58 pm PST #2427 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nothing wrong with precise; it's a damned useful thing to be, unless you're writing something heavily spontaneous and freewheeling.
Susan W. - Oct 27, 2003 7:58:50 pm PST #2428 of 10001
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Well, yeah, but precise is a tool, a style. I'd like to think I'm wielding it in such a way that my readers are amused, touched, moved, what have you.
Astarte - Oct 27, 2003 8:14:30 pm PST #2429 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Speaking of growing, I've finally started outlining for real my "opus" using StoryView. I've been biting at the edges, drabbling little scenes with very little real idea what's going to happen. I'm stronger with character than plot, really. I'm hoping SV will help me put together a skeleton to hang the flesh of the story on.
So, I feel like this is really the official beginning of Kemar. Makes me a bit nervous and excited, and a little butterly-tummy going on. But it's begun in earnest.
Here goes nothin'.
deborah grabien - Oct 27, 2003 8:15:38 pm PST #2430 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Why do the two have cancel each other out? Malory wrote precise stuff, and I go back to "Le Morte d'Arthur" over and over and over.
deborah grabien - Oct 27, 2003 8:16:35 pm PST #2431 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Whoo! Go, Astarte!
Drabbles are such very good friends, aren't they? So damned clarifying. They're like a facial for the head.
Susan W. - Oct 27, 2003 8:22:05 pm PST #2432 of 10001
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Why do the two have cancel each other out? Malory wrote precise stuff, and I go back to "Le Morte d'Arthur" over and over and over.
Oh, they don't, not at all. I'm just not sure that this particular reader is seeing anything but precision, you know? However, he and I could hardly have more different writing styles and reading preferences, so as long as he sees some merit in my stuff, that's probably enough.