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Originally Posted by hidari
So, Harry T and LuvReadin would you stop watching a movie if there was poor grammar on the part of the screen play, after all it is just a story like most Fiction out there? I really find the anal retentiveness a bit strange....no offence, but if the story is good it should transcend bits and bobs of mistakes...and some "rules" of grammar are a bit arbitrary.
As for the Lit writer that is complaining... pathetic and moron comes to mind. Writing is a privilege. Lots of people make a living doing many types of jobs. He or she who make s living as a writer should enjoy the privilege of having that opportunity. Somehow are readers supposed to have more sympathy for this struggling writer because he is not getting his 20,000 quid cut for his next literature novel that nobody will read? I am not an SK fan but at least he knows how to market and sell novels or he knows how to get people to do it for him.
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How is writing a privilege any more than selling used cars or flipping burgers?
Maybe you are saying getting paid for writing is a privilege? Is it then a privilege to work at or create anything and get paid for it? Maybe it is. If so most people who work are indeed privileged.
I can write, you can write, maybe one of us could write a book that people would buy, maybe not.
Successful writers may be privileged by posessing talent or a good work ethic or both, but the idea that writing is a privilege in the free world for a moderately educated person with access to a pen and paper or a computer seems a bit farfetched.
Actually living in the free world is a privilege of course which often means one actually has books to read and food to eat etc..
Helen