Merely failing to comprehend something doesn't make it impossible that one is going to write it; the description of the Doorstop as a bodice-ripper isn't -- from the reaction of people I've mentioned 'military bodice-ripper' to -- all that far off, despite my inability to get through Austen never mind something that might be more properly described as a bodice-ripper.
Hee. First off, you have just annoyed every Jane Austen afficionado worth their salt <g>.
Second, you failed to comprehend Extruded Fantasy Product, which is, by your own admission, what you initially set out to write. What you wrote was nothing like EFP in any way, shape or form. Well, okay, form in the sense that it was 1300 pages of manuscript, with type. What you ended up with was a novel filtered through the sensibilities of Graydon, in and of itself a curious thing. But that's essentially what, I think, we all achieve in the end -- stories filtered through the medium of accreted experience, conscious and sub.
So I would argue that failing to comprehend something in your case did mean you failed to write it, which sort of renders the point somewhat less useful. Then again, on the wrong day, I'd argue that West is East for specific values of West.
Much less directly connected to writing -- I don't think it makes sense to attach moral weight to how people do insecurity management.
This, however, I will grant with reservations, rather than debate. I did not see the incident, at the time, as unfortunate insecurity management (which, btw, is probably the best example of Graydon viral English that exists in my daily parlance); I saw it at best as unprofessional behaviour. At worst? I'll leave it alone.
I also think that whoever it was who said Luna=romance and romance=crap in the minds of some people are probably dead on, and have been thinking about this for a while now. Perhaps it will spawn <wry g>.
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Re: couple of thoughts....
Date: 2004-08-19 08:04 pm (UTC)Hee. First off, you have just annoyed every Jane Austen afficionado worth their salt <g>.
Second, you failed to comprehend Extruded Fantasy Product, which is, by your own admission, what you initially set out to write. What you wrote was nothing like EFP in any way, shape or form. Well, okay, form in the sense that it was 1300 pages of manuscript, with type. What you ended up with was a novel filtered through the sensibilities of Graydon, in and of itself a curious thing. But that's essentially what, I think, we all achieve in the end -- stories filtered through the medium of accreted experience, conscious and sub.
So I would argue that failing to comprehend something in your case did mean you failed to write it, which sort of renders the point somewhat less useful. Then again, on the wrong day, I'd argue that West is East for specific values of West.
Much less directly connected to writing -- I don't think it makes sense to attach moral weight to how people do insecurity management.
This, however, I will grant with reservations, rather than debate. I did not see the incident, at the time, as unfortunate insecurity management (which, btw, is probably the best example of Graydon viral English that exists in my daily parlance); I saw it at best as unprofessional behaviour. At worst? I'll leave it alone.
I also think that whoever it was who said Luna=romance and romance=crap in the minds of some people are probably dead on, and have been thinking about this for a while now. Perhaps it will spawn <wry g>.