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Originally Posted by kennyc
12. Listening to readers who know nothing about writing try to tell you how to write.
12a. Listening to readers who think they know something about marketing and/or selling.
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While I do have sympathy for what you are saying, it is par for the course. If you are going to put your work out there then people will have opinions on what you have done. I have opinions on what Stephen King has been doing wrong lately - and I'm sure those opinions concern him greatly.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I too give scanned books a pass on funky errors.
I am talking new books primarily from the noobie crowd.
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So human errors are inexcusable but machine errors you are happy to ignore? Doesn't that strike you as a little unfair?
Surely it is the existence (and volume/severity) of errors that bother the reader, or not*, and the source of the errors should be irrelevant.
For myself, the story trumps everything else. If it is good and gets me in then I hardly notice errors. If not, my head spends its spare time finding all the things that are wrong with it.
* There are many readers that don't notice errors. The majority of my beta readers simply do not see most of the errors in my drafts. Most will pick up a few here and there, but that's all. (Which is fine, syntax and grammar errors are not what I'm looking for from beta readers.) Just one or two of my beta readers come close to finding what there is to find.