But Anne Rice makes a habit of psychodrama of precisely this sort -- flouncing off, seeing betrayal and personal insult in any critique, leaving long rants on her answering machine and web site that, in the course of defending herself, manage to insult a large number of other people and sound laughable in the process.
This is the first thing I've ever seen publicly, aside from the criticism of Tom Cruise and the retraction of the criticism of Tom Cruise, fwiw.
I'm not one of her readers, but I'm not really a Vampire fan of any kind. I liked Buffy because she killed them. And then didn't kill them so much. But <ahem> I try to avoid religious issues in topic.
So I'm giving her the context benefit that I have.
I'm not sure getting angry needs to serve a purpose. I just get angry when confronted with something that strikes me as inappropriate, and then the purpose served is expressing my anger. In addition, I'd argue, it serves as an object lesson to other pros that falling in love with yourself to this extent is going to alienate readers, and to fans who behave in a similar fashion in our own small puddle to see how unattractive it is when viewed from the outside.
I don't get angry when something strikes me as inappropriate. I do get angry when something strikes me as stupid, otoh. And if I'm tired, gross incompetence makes me cranky. Okay, crankier. But I don't get a lot of glee out of being pissed off or offended.
Your response seems appropriate to me; you're responding in context to something I've said, rather than adding to the heap of things that are being repetitively said, and frankly, are using whole sentences, which separates you somewhat from many <wry g&g;t.
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Date: 2004-09-22 07:50 am (UTC)This is the first thing I've ever seen publicly, aside from the criticism of Tom Cruise and the retraction of the criticism of Tom Cruise, fwiw.
I'm not one of her readers, but I'm not really a Vampire fan of any kind. I liked Buffy because she killed them. And then didn't kill them so much. But <ahem> I try to avoid religious issues in topic.
So I'm giving her the context benefit that I have.
I'm not sure getting angry needs to serve a purpose. I just get angry when confronted with something that strikes me as inappropriate, and then the purpose served is expressing my anger. In addition, I'd argue, it serves as an object lesson to other pros that falling in love with yourself to this extent is going to alienate readers, and to fans who behave in a similar fashion in our own small puddle to see how unattractive it is when viewed from the outside.
I don't get angry when something strikes me as inappropriate. I do get angry when something strikes me as stupid, otoh. And if I'm tired, gross incompetence makes me cranky. Okay, crankier. But I don't get a lot of glee out of being pissed off or offended.
Your response seems appropriate to me; you're responding in context to something I've said, rather than adding to the heap of things that are being repetitively said, and frankly, are using whole sentences, which separates you somewhat from many <wry g&g;t.