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How do you deal with conflicting editors/edit ideas.
Snowleopard:
^^^
Yeah, verily yeah!
Shecky:
Something not quite touched on so far:
Choose the one that seems most likely to fix your work in the direction you're intending it to go. In other words, the one that, in retrospect, fits what you would have wanted to improve about your work within its desired context.
BobForPresident:
--- Quote from: Ramenth on May 13, 2011, 08:03:50 PM ---Hi Author Craft forum,
So, I have a question for you all. I'm just finishing up my life as a student in creative writing at UCSC, which is a very workshop heavy program. As you might expect, large workshops tend to generate a lot of great feedback, but a good portion of it seems like opposite responses. This is especially true if you've taken a work through more than one class.
How do you guys deal with conflicting responses and critiques?
-Ramenth
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Take the edits and suggestions and think about who's giving them. If a student and an established author give you conflicting ideas, you'd be wise to give the author's ideas a little more weight. But in the end, you know the work/characters best. If a note contradicts your over-arching theme or something, it's gotta go, even if Tolkein himself gave it to you. :)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on June 21, 2011, 02:06:20 AM ---And it's a better bet long-term to get published and become a success by telling the stories you care about as best you can than by churning out derivative invitation of whatever today's flavour of the month is.
When it comes to what readers will want to read and buy, always remember William Goldman's First Rule:
NOBODY
KNOWS
ANYTHING.
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cool. William Goldman, wrote Lion in Winter? Goldman? A favorite of mine.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on June 22, 2011, 08:43:40 PM --- cool. William Goldman, wrote Lion in Winter? Goldman? A favorite of mine.
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William Goldman who wrote The Princess Bride and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, though I did not think Lion in Winter was one of his.
I do know one person who after reading and liking Princess Bride went looking for something else by the same author and absently picked up Lord of the Flies. This strikes me as a bad move.
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