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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
Then again, Moby Dick could serve as a whale-hunting manual — talk about detail! — but on the whole it seems to work. This is probably just one more area where it's tough to say anything categorical.
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You beat me to it. I was going to cite Hawthorne myself, but there are many examples to go to. It's okay to be in love with your own voice so long as enough other people are too. Errr, at least it's okay in terms of market success.
I once read a critique from an editor complaining that too many writers had main characters with green eyes when green eyes aren't nearly so common in the general population.
Sometimes, even among experts, the complaints that come out aren't actually a description of what is wrong with the work in question, but merely a sign that something is in fact wrong with it. And other times the experts are just flat wrong.