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Originally Posted by moonshot
'Obtuse' Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. Why would I want to comment on that? Single minded comes to mind.
Maybe that demonstrates my point. Someone who is not very good with words; or was the word obtuse used as an insult because I have a different point of view to most here.
There needs to be some sort of standard so that the buyer, whether they pay £1.74 or £16 for a book, will know that at lease a minimum acceptable standard of writing has been achieved. Otherwise the industry will become swamped and the waters muddied with 'cowboy' authors. I sort of x factor for delusional 'authors'.
For now though a litmus test could be to see if the author appears in Fantastic Fiction.
If that is 'annoyingly insensitive' all I can say is that 'maybe you really do look fat in that dress.  |
The problem is that your point of view is simply wrong. You're persistent, but persistently wrong. If you wrote a book, you're an author. If writing a book didn't mean you were an author, that would lead to the absurdity of a book having no author. But being an author doesn't mean your books are any good. There are plenty of litmus tests that you can apply to decide to decide whether or not you might want to read a book. No one picks up a book and says "This was written by an author, it must be good!" The world of books is NOT swamped with with the bad books because we have plenty of litmus tests we can apply to find books we might like to read. Few people read books randomly.