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despite the flack I'm going to get....
daranthered:
As my last thought regarding writing a story good enough for publication; it seems to me that in a world of roughly six billion people, about eight billion want to be writers.
There's a lot of manuscripts out there that should get published on the merits.
Figuring out what the market wants is a publishers job. A writer should write what they write best. Rowling could never have written a story about an angsty teen girl, and her vampire not-lover. She's a Classicist, so she wrote a story with a lot of classical elements.
Tribblechomper:
--- Quote from: KWPech on July 30, 2010, 02:29:37 PM ---Huh? Sorry, I didnt hear you. I was working on loading the trebuchet. ;)
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I was setting up the vuvuzela on your alarm clock...
MoSeS:
LOL.
What's ironic is the topic of this thread is "despite the flack I'm going to get...." but I don't think anyone has given meg_evonne any flack.
I think there was more flack for mentioning The Dark Tower, Anne Rice, and JK Rowling.
:-\ ??? :o :P
meg_evonne:
I've been at a writer's camp for two weeks and returned to find the responses on this thread. I'm so pleased that we can have such wonderful discussion from both sides of an issue and still expand our knowledge on the publishing world.
You guys really are the best! Thank you for your thoughts and your civility. And I love your avatar MoSeS.
Zolt:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on August 02, 2010, 03:51:26 PM ---@Thrythlind
I struggled and never finished the Silmilarion because I bought some old copy from a library (green hard back with some gold symbol on it, I lost it though) and I struggled with the English in it, I think it was an early translation or not translated at all. I don't know if they have different translations of this?
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God, that takes me back... The Silmarillon was the first book I ever read in English, back when I was 14 or so... Picked it up on a school trip to the UK. Horrible. Took me maybe 3 months to make any sense of it. On the up side: any book I ever read after that was easy by comparison.
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