Not to mention the many agents who apparently regard us in the same way one would regard bubblegum on the bottom of one's shoe. It's so nice to know that dealing with us and our queries and manuscripts is so unpleasant that it is the bane of an agent's existence and makes their lives nearly unbearable.
This is why I hate, hate, hate the sheep mentality that arises via Twitter and blogs and the like. Too often, agents have complained about writers spending time on social networking sites when they should be working, I say the same for agents who spend time on social networking sites.
And that blog post was so wrong, it had a wrong sauce on the side with wrong sprinkles on top. Published authors bitch every bit as much, it's just that not many of them do it publicly because of the "nice girl" syndrome. No one wants to be perceived as stomping on someone else's success or God forbid, have it seen as sour grapes. To which, you know, I tend to call bullshit.
I can't stand the Twilight books. They're flat out not well-written and the message they contain, however unintentional it might have been, is execrable. I especially despise the community that has sprung up around the books, because of the closed-mindedness that doesn't allow for any critique. However, I'm one of the few who actually says so publicly. I have a friend of mine who hates far more books than I do, but she'll never say that she dislikes a book publicly because as she puts it, "We know better than anyone else how much work goes into writing a book-- I'm not going to stomp on anyone's work."
Frankly, what the hell does Steph Meyer care if I like her book or not? She's laughing all the way to the bank and I have my opinion and the sense of comfort of knowing that I'm not perpetuating the sheep mentality.
With the HP books, they're certainly more well-written, but even the last three books could have been edited a bit better.
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Date: 2009-07-06 05:32 pm (UTC)This is why I hate, hate, hate the sheep mentality that arises via Twitter and blogs and the like. Too often, agents have complained about writers spending time on social networking sites when they should be working, I say the same for agents who spend time on social networking sites.
And that blog post was so wrong, it had a wrong sauce on the side with wrong sprinkles on top. Published authors bitch every bit as much, it's just that not many of them do it publicly because of the "nice girl" syndrome. No one wants to be perceived as stomping on someone else's success or God forbid, have it seen as sour grapes. To which, you know, I tend to call bullshit.
I can't stand the Twilight books. They're flat out not well-written and the message they contain, however unintentional it might have been, is execrable. I especially despise the community that has sprung up around the books, because of the closed-mindedness that doesn't allow for any critique. However, I'm one of the few who actually says so publicly. I have a friend of mine who hates far more books than I do, but she'll never say that she dislikes a book publicly because as she puts it, "We know better than anyone else how much work goes into writing a book-- I'm not going to stomp on anyone's work."
Frankly, what the hell does Steph Meyer care if I like her book or not? She's laughing all the way to the bank and I have my opinion and the sense of comfort of knowing that I'm not perpetuating the sheep mentality.
With the HP books, they're certainly more well-written, but even the last three books could have been edited a bit better.