Howard Hughes vs. Her Last Scrap of Humanity

[greygirlbeast]

Remember when people "had time" to read online journals? Before the instant gratifications and endless blither buffet of Twitter and Facebook, I mean. Wow. Technology. LJ automatically capitalizes "facebook," unless I force it not to, at which point I'm told it's misspelled. Talk about kissing the ass of your undoing

Comments

[ulffriend]

I would be far more shocked if you said that you NEVER were disappointed or unhappy with someting you've written/are writing - nothing is sunshine and kittens all the time. It makes perfect sense to me that spending that much time inside your head would have bad moments.

Sounds like the "reviewer" you mention has the idea that reading should require nothing of the reader...perhaps she should try a Harlequin romance...

[greygirlbeast]

It makes perfect sense to me that spending that much time inside your head would have bad moments.

You have to think on the scale of "bad years" and "bad books."

perhaps she should try a Harlequin romance...

Do they still make those?

[ulffriend]

I checked Amazon, and apparently (a) Harlequin is now the moniker for some Kindle-only mommy porn and (b) some of the older Harlequins are going for up to $500...what the??????

I suspect that if she looks for anything with a title like "His Throbbing Loins" or comparable she'll be fine.

I take your point about "bad years".

[akaten]

Personally, I find that it's much easier to reject arguments made by people who can't express their thoughts coherently-- as, for example, when they don't know the difference between "obtuse" and "abstruse." Of course, that distinction, as with so many others in English, is all but destroyed by lazy usage, but I will continue to raise the prescriptivist banner until they put me in the ground.

[greygirlbeast]

Personally, I find that it's much easier to reject arguments made by people who can't express their thoughts coherently-- as, for example, when they don't know the difference between "obtuse" and "abstruse."

Congratulations. I was waiting for someone to catch that.

[akaten]

Thank you. I do what little I can.

still here.

[whiskeychick]

I don't always comment. I've said that before. But, I always read. I'll even read that which you're hating writing currently. Why not? It's all learning, yes?

[rai_ryu]

I've always wondered whether reading an author's personal blog and hearing the "behind the scenes" of their writing affects the way we read or enjoy the books they write. I'm not sure if it conflicts with the illusion of the novel as a world of it's own.