I feel that given a reader devotes their valuable time to and money on your tale that they do have a right to their opinion (even a bitter one) and you as the author must NEVER forget that...
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Ramble (9 April 2022)
You probably wish this were not true: I have more time for this site now, too!
Stars Online
I avoid reading reviews of my books because I feel they are for other readers and not for me. Readers are entitled to their opinions. I simply write my tales as I see fit and it is up to a reader to decide if they like them or not...
To Tell “My” Story?
I try to ask myself from time to time as I write: Why should anyone else out there care about this FICTIONAL tale and about these characters?
In The #ReadingCommunity
As I am revising and editing, and nearing the end of my latest, I thought I would pause and get a sense of what some readers - rather than writers - are out there tweeting about...
Scrolling The Tweets…
It has been a while since I last did, so I thought I would here offer my reactions to some tweets I plucked from a few scrolls of that platform's (which I no longer use, as you may know) writers and #writingcommunity...
Private Messages
I have found over the years that there are readers - often very articulate ones, too - who may want to talk IN PRIVATE about this or that in my books.
“90 Percent”
That message to me from that reader is also no surprise in this sense: Insofar as I can tell, some "90 percent" of my readers have always been women.
That Most “Unsocial” Of Socials
Fed up. Done. Gone.
The Keyboard “Seduction”
Let's be honest: Who wants to read a book by a mope who tweets about their "failures"?
You Say “Favourite,” She Says “Favorite”
I will always remember what I was told after I revealed in 2013 I was writing Passports and showed the initial draft first to my (English) Mrs., and then to an English woman friend. Having read it, separately they both noticed that I was inadvertently mixing American-English language forms and British-English.
What Would Voltaire Say?
Writers: NEVER EVER EVER apologize for YOUR imagination and YOUR creations.
While She Was Alive
Over the previous three years, I had also fictionalized her in three novels, the last being that one above. In them I included reconstructions of various real-life interactions and even disagreements between us from back when I was in my 20s and young 30s. She never knew I had sneakily done that.
Day Of Rest
I read none of my Conventions manuscript yesterday beyond glimpsing its cover on Instagram and here in my post about it. I'm taking a few days away from the late 1700s to clear my head before I delve into correcting it from the beginning. I think this is probably the first time in months I … Continue reading Day Of Rest
He Says, She Says
During our phone chat a few weeks ago (because we weren't able to get together as hoped), my uncle told me that (based on what he'd read so far) he considered what I write nicely readable. That's a good thing, though, he asserted. If it's what I want, I should run with it. But I … Continue reading He Says, She Says
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