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Originally Posted by Kemp
I think I agree; taking criticism from other writers is difficult to contemplate.
On one hand, you have the benefit of experience as well as the simple advantage of having another pair of eyes looking at your work. On the other hand, writers are eternally going to consider their own creations at least palatable. Either that, or they consider themselves artistic geniuses.
Those people can be hard to take criticism from. Also, since the creative arts are entirely subjective, the thriller writer may not have much to say about the high fantasy offering. Critiquing the writing style? Well, that can be pretty damn objective too.
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Mmmm... it's not so much writers in general, as ones that aren't experienced enough to overlook the stylistic rule-breakings and pick up the just-plain-broken rules. Make sense?
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Originally Posted by Kemp
Your own writing, for example, nomesque. Though it shames me to say, I haven't finished Dead(ish), but what I can say what I did read was that it was stylistically different than things I've read?
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I don't think you should be ashamed to say that
Especially if it wasn't your cup of tea, and/or you didn't like the writing. I guess what I was trying to say is that I like critiques on things that don't work
within the given stylistic choices, and the storyline in general. Like, "what on earth made Mike kill Linda? I don't get it!" would be completely legit in my eyes. For that matter, I have no issues with a
review saying, "I hated the style of writing, it's confusing".
Erm, I get the impression I'm rambling a lot. Sorry, folks. Blame the lack of coffee
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Originally Posted by Kemp
Is this bad? Hell no. Will it scare some people, even perhaps moving them to lash out in a nastier fashion? Yeah, sadly. It's the internet; people like to spew their emotional extremes.
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Yup. Although I haven't had much if any vitriol aimed at me - mostly just 'oh this is terrible, too much swearing' type reviews on B&N, probably because B&N has no age-appropriate or sex-swearing-violence ratings available.