Yeah, I read the stuff that was up there (on Amazon) as of noon yesterday. I find it somewhat amazing that she's been an author lo these many years and hasn't learned to let go of this stuff. It's easy, in our insular worlds, to get caught up in thinking we're cool, that what we say is important to everyone. You learn on what fronts to guard against criticism (or at least, to curb your reaction to criticism)--appearance, salary, the one person at work who always thinks you're an idiot, whatever. An attack comes on an undefended flank and it floors you, and all the urbane detachment you've developed about the other things is of no use.
I guess I'm just totally shocked that a writer hasn't learned that writing is one of those fronts.
But maybe that's what her husband actually did for her--I tend not to think that he wrote her works, because that's just convoluted and insulting on a whole different level--but maybe he shored up those defenses for her, and now she's reeling from something that, by rights, she should have experienced long ago.
Just a guess. I do feel sorry for her, but not in a good way.
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Date: 2004-09-22 05:31 am (UTC)I guess I'm just totally shocked that a writer hasn't learned that writing is one of those fronts.
But maybe that's what her husband actually did for her--I tend not to think that he wrote her works, because that's just convoluted and insulting on a whole different level--but maybe he shored up those defenses for her, and now she's reeling from something that, by rights, she should have experienced long ago.
Just a guess. I do feel sorry for her, but not in a good way.