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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've never "reviewed" a book in my life. Why should you, as an author, expect me to?
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I don't expect people to "review" in that context, I was just wondering when people really start to give some kind of feedback, you know?
If someone was like "I totally hate this," it would probably hurt my feelings and I'd spend the day in a teen-style depressive funk
... But if someone was like "This part here didn't seem so well put together" or "This would have been better if..."
I don't know. I guess I just enjoy some kind of feedback with the people reading the stuff I write. I like knowing what people enjoy and even if I don't go out of my way to cater to other people at the cost of the story, it would be helpful to know what totally turns people off altogether.
Example: David Feintuch's "The King." I really enjoyed "The Still," so of course I was hot to read "The King" the minute it came out. Not even halfway through, I was wishing someone had given me a heads up about some of what was going to happen. Once I started reading, it was like this chore I had to finish. Given the choice and a bit of warning, I wouldn't have even started it at all, because by the time I finished the last page I just kind of threw the book from me and went to wash my hands.
So if I was the one that wrote "The King" and I had gotten that response from someone in the early stages, I might have rewritten some of the more distasteful scenes or even gone in a totally different direction. That, or I would have been like, "This is the way the story goes. Sorry, but this is how the character growth goes."