I actually went to look at Anne's commentary, and I was just mindboggled. I think she basically broke every rule of writer etiquette I've ever tried to imagine. Basically? She comes off like some 15 year old fangirl who's just had her first ONE PERFECT STORY critiqued, and she's ready to declare war on any who don't like it as much as she does. No, seriously. Put her words in the mouth of some online writer, and see if it doesn't sound exactly the same.
I can respect a lot of things from a lot of authors, especially convictions. But Anne's temper tantrum has just exposed something about her I never wanted to see. I'm amazed. Truly. THIS is a bigtime author with the big money and the many fans and the movies made of her books? THIS is one of the Writing Elite? She's allowed to contradict the critics; where I'm left shaking my head is when she points out how perfect certain scenes are, how special, how wonderful, how it's art and just so very right.
Let's not even get into the "I don't need an editor. I'll never let an editor touch my work. I'm too big for an editor." I think that if someone ever hits that point, they need an editor all the more.
In the end, I'm just amazed in a bad way that any author could get to where she is, and still be capable of blowing up in such a spectacularly pathetic fashion.
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Date: 2004-09-22 01:51 am (UTC)Basically? She comes off like some 15 year old fangirl who's just had her first ONE PERFECT STORY critiqued, and she's ready to declare war on any who don't like it as much as she does. No, seriously. Put her words in the mouth of some online writer, and see if it doesn't sound exactly the same.
I can respect a lot of things from a lot of authors, especially convictions. But Anne's temper tantrum has just exposed something about her I never wanted to see. I'm amazed. Truly. THIS is a bigtime author with the big money and the many fans and the movies made of her books? THIS is one of the Writing Elite? She's allowed to contradict the critics; where I'm left shaking my head is when she points out how perfect certain scenes are, how special, how wonderful, how it's art and just so very right.
Let's not even get into the "I don't need an editor. I'll never let an editor touch my work. I'm too big for an editor." I think that if someone ever hits that point, they need an editor all the more.
In the end, I'm just amazed in a bad way that any author could get to where she is, and still be capable of blowing up in such a spectacularly pathetic fashion.