Exactly. This is what I told my daughter, who is struggling with her first non-A grades in English: EVERYBODY hates edits. The trick is first you hate them, then you think about them, then you do them. And you hate them only in front of trusted friends.

Heh.

Her review is pure comedy gold.


She pulls out all of the greatest hits:
1. "You don't understaaaaaaaaaaand me/my vision!"
2. "How dare you criticize my work/You flamed me!" 
3. "BNFs and plebes both love me, you nobody!"
4. "If you don't like it, don't read it!"
5. "I don't need a beta!"
6. "I AM SO DEEP."
7. "He's not a Mary Sue! He just talks like me, reacts like me, and has all of my opinions!"
8. "You're abusing my freedom of speech with your freedom of speech!"
9. "You're just jealous and using sockpuppets!"
10. "My fans think you suck!"
And many more

When a person is asserting she has no need of an editor, she ought to remember that paragraph breaks are her readers' friends. ijs

Oh wait, it gets better! Escape from the fetters of paragraph breaks!

“Wuss-tat.” OMG. This is killing me!!

"And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself."

Apparently, this retort wasn't one of those. Or perhaps it was. Hard to tell.

hahahaha. This has made my day.

I skimmed through a lot of the last LKH book I read. It's probably the first time in my life that I skimmed to get past the sex scenes rather than skimming to them. Odds are I'll get the latest at the library, just to see what, if anything, happens to Jason and Nathanial. Oh, alright, and Jean-Claude, too. Maybe he'll finally eat Richard. And by that I really don't mean porn.

Jason and Nathanial.

So far? They get laid.

Betsy I can't believe you bought the LKH. I mean we just snarked at the title two days ago.

I knew I was going to. Nostalgie de la boue.

Jason and Nathanial.

So far? They get laid.

Ah--something they've always claimed to want. I hope they aren't guilt tripping afterward.

Their stories interest me way more than Anita's. Nathaniel's so damaged, and Jason keeps being the voice of reason in an unreasonable universe. It doesn't hurt that I tend to envision Nathaniel as a shorter Tom Welling and Jason as Ewan MacGregor.

What I liked about original Anita was her being the voice of reason. Plus the determination: the little bitch just would not tolerate seeing anybody getting hurt on her watch, and this seemed to come from her basic humanity, which made her a pretty good class protector IMHO.

Heh. When I had a crappy temp job doing front desk and snotty people would demand my name, I would tell them it was Anita Blake. That was fun.

edit: oh thanks, now I'm visualizing Ewan McGregor and I just can't stop. Yum.