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James:

--- Quote from: Jack_of_Names on December 20, 2006, 10:23:10 PM ---lol No, I'm from England (Dont' hate me, I'm a quater Welsh lol). What I meant about not being a kid, but not being an adult is that kids think of you as old, and people who're older think of you as a kid. Like, when you're seven, you know everyone is going to think og you as "young" and when you're 27 people will thinkof you as an adult. You're pretty much thought of as a kidall through your teens, but when you hit 21, you're not quite either. It's a transition age. It's a weird age. I wish I was seven. Things were SWEET when I was seven lol.

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Unless you play for thier rugby team then all is okay ;D.

What freaks me and most of my friends of the same age 22-23 is that some of our parents were married and had us or our older siblings at that age. I do understand what you mean early 20's is wierd you are no longer a teen so can't get away with much crap and not quite ready to settle down (well most aren't) but you have to start taking more adultish responsibilities.

I also find it wierd that a couple of my friends are now teachers and some are training to be teachers, my best mate is Mr King which I know he is going to have great fun with lol.

Jack_of_Names:
You hate 'em when you have 'em, and then you are one. It's one of the great mysteries of life!!! Teachers; The (wo)men, the myths, the legends.

Dom:
Re: bad reviews - I agree with iago .

There was a big name author a few years ago who made a big stink on amazon about the bad reviews their book was getting.  It hit livejournal and the sci-fi/fantasy writers' communities instantly, and everyone made fun of them.  Or made them a Lesson of What Not To Do.  And it stuck in MY mind that that author was very immature to respond to a review in that way in public.  I definately learned a lesson.

Also, from my time as a pro e-bayer...if you ever do ebay, don't only look at a seller's positive reviews to get an idea of how they are...look at how they respond to the negatives they get, and how they respond to the sellers they buy from.  Sometimes a guy will have pretty good feedback overall, but the one negative they had they flew off the handle on in the response back to their customer.  As a buyer I take note of that, because it tells me something about what might happen if something just happens to go wrong with *my* order.  I think author reviews are the same thing...you can tell a lot about an author by the way they respond to negativity.

Always always keep your head about reviews.  In most cases, they don't know what the heck they're talking about (ie, the YOU SUCK! oh-so-helpful comments...Battlestar Galactica fandom, for example, abounds with lots of fans who don't know what they're talking about from a writing-perspective), and in some cases they do know what they're talking about and are worth listening too, if only to see why they think the way they do, even if you don't agree.

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