lovely rant. sounds like anne rice hasn't learned anything from the last time she wrote an essay about not needing an editor. writers with flat learning curves do, unsurprisingly, not sell any books to me after the one that convinced me they're not listening to any criticism.
though i take issue with your example: If you leave someone a note to meet you at McDonald's, and they head over to Burger King, you failed. You chose the wrong words. -- i know what you meant to say, but the way you said it, *grin*, i would definitely assign failure to the reader. if you had said "meet me at that burger joint, the one downtown." then the example would work better IMO.
anyway, enjoy your writing -- got here from klwalton.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
Re: Lurkers Support Me In EMAIL!
Date: 2004-09-21 03:19 pm (UTC)though i take issue with your example: If you leave someone a note to meet you at McDonald's, and they head over to Burger King, you failed. You chose the wrong words. -- i know what you meant to say, but the way you said it, *grin*, i would definitely assign failure to the reader. if you had said "meet me at that burger joint, the one downtown." then the example would work better IMO.
anyway, enjoy your writing -- got here from