Definitely go you, Betsy. That's a tough thing to do.
Deb, insent.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way
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Deena - Mar 19, 2004 8:32:56 pm PST #3622 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
deborah grabien - Mar 19, 2004 9:39:48 pm PST #3623 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Deena, received. And you're astonishing, you know that?
Wow.
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2004 10:46:47 am PST #3624 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The whiniest writer -- excuse me, author -- of all time.
Lyra Jane - Mar 22, 2004 10:54:21 am PST #3625 of 10001
Up with the sun
I saw that too, Betsy.
If the article is written in a similar style to her books? I can see why they don't sell well. Too many gewgaws and frills, too little actually said, and I hate that she spent a third of a three-page article saying, basically, "This is what I am going to talk about."
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2004 10:57:25 am PST #3626 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Honey, many, many great writers had a day job. There is no law saying that a great book will be a profitable book. Your agent is right. Suck it up and deal.
erikaj - Mar 22, 2004 10:58:16 am PST #3627 of 10001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
playing world's tiniest violin for this person.
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2004 10:59:57 am PST #3628 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Huh.
I was more than a little sympathetic towards her. I'm a little shocked at the pile-on here.
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2004 11:08:09 am PST #3629 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My anger is at the sense of entitlement -- she appears to feel that she has a right not only to write great books but to earn a living wage from them. Hundreds of great writers haven't. She talks about earning a day job the way that Alice Adams does -- as the ultimate degradation. And she says she can't write without the dream of making the New York Times bestseller list.
Don't get me wrong, I have that fantasy, too. But it isn't why I write, and I don't expect it as my due.
Lyra Jane - Mar 22, 2004 11:14:30 am PST #3630 of 10001
Up with the sun
You see it as a pile-on, Plei? It's three people, and as far as we know she isn't reading this board.
I probably would have been more sympathetic towards her if her writing style hadn't bugged me so much.
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2004 11:16:24 am PST #3631 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I totally got something completely different from that.
What I took away was that someone who had, for a short period of time, seen the potential to actually do what she loved as a job, rather than to continue to work doing something that she wasn't especially happy or comfortable doing, only to see the potential give way to harsh reality *despite* relatively good reviews. Not only that, but to see herself losing the potential to be published, period. Not just the potential to be a NYT best seller.