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Jun. 4th, 2008 08:33 pmIn blogland news today. The problems with Amazon have not been solved and some people have begun boycotting. Others of us have been buying elsewhere for a while. That link covers both groups.
In other news, obviously of equal importance, my neck started stoping hurting about 2 pm. I've spent most of the time since then sleeping. I've still got one of the strains, but the other is almost gone. I've lost half my week to my disorderly neck. My recommendation? Strain only unimportant muscles.
Maybe I need someone to volunteer to take on all my muscle pain? I can pay in chocolate.
On the reflective side, I'm trying to work out why some sequences in books send one reader in one direction and another in another. Also, how to edit in order to better-direct a reader who misses what to me were obvious clues.
I've always known that what to me is really standard sometimes only applies to certain readers, but I've never sat down and tried to think of how to include some of the ones who were (unintentionally) excluded. It was Dev who alerted me to this. Sorry, Dev: I've been thinking about it like mad, but still haven't found a solution. I've identified the problem, though, and it actually goes a long way to explaining how some readers can think something publication-ready and others can scratch their heads and wonder. It's a start.
I don't intend to drop all my idiosyncrasies and become a universalist writer (to be honest, I think that would destroy ficiton for me). I do intend, however, to see if I can find out the key places where more sets of signals as to the purpose of a novel need to be embedded in that novel ie add more little flags saying 'this bit is important'.
My students had some useful thoughts on it too, in the context of TS Eliot and his silent seas.
In other news, obviously of equal importance, my neck started stoping hurting about 2 pm. I've spent most of the time since then sleeping. I've still got one of the strains, but the other is almost gone. I've lost half my week to my disorderly neck. My recommendation? Strain only unimportant muscles.
Maybe I need someone to volunteer to take on all my muscle pain? I can pay in chocolate.
On the reflective side, I'm trying to work out why some sequences in books send one reader in one direction and another in another. Also, how to edit in order to better-direct a reader who misses what to me were obvious clues.
I've always known that what to me is really standard sometimes only applies to certain readers, but I've never sat down and tried to think of how to include some of the ones who were (unintentionally) excluded. It was Dev who alerted me to this. Sorry, Dev: I've been thinking about it like mad, but still haven't found a solution. I've identified the problem, though, and it actually goes a long way to explaining how some readers can think something publication-ready and others can scratch their heads and wonder. It's a start.
I don't intend to drop all my idiosyncrasies and become a universalist writer (to be honest, I think that would destroy ficiton for me). I do intend, however, to see if I can find out the key places where more sets of signals as to the purpose of a novel need to be embedded in that novel ie add more little flags saying 'this bit is important'.
My students had some useful thoughts on it too, in the context of TS Eliot and his silent seas.