Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 11:06:02 GMT 5.75
Reading an article on the Obbrobbrio blog, " Writing generates monsters ", I had the inspiration for this post. As always, in Alessandro's blog they say "a spade a spade and wine a wine", criticisms and opinions are expressed bluntly, as it should be, in my opinion. The controversy of that post is 100% acceptable. The same thing happened to me. When you open a blog about writing and blogging, like I did, it's normal that sooner or later someone writes to you privately asking for advice. It happened to me for every blog I opened. And every time I provided the requested advice – except on short stories, but here I will explain why – at least when it was within my means. What did I get out of it? In 90% or more of cases not even a thank you . Yes just like this. Only rarely did the person reply thanking me. I don't know if it's the web that creates these forms of rudeness, but I think so, because in reality, when someone asks you for a favor and you do it for them, you receive a thank you.
Otherwise, it's a nice invitation to visit that distant country that we know well. Maybe online is all due? Who knows? Maybe this is the perception of the average user. You have a blog and therefore it is your duty to give advice to everyone. But now it's time to get back to the topic of the post. I can't judge your stories I'm not an editor : I'm just someone who loves to write, like many of you. An editor will be able to give you professional judgments, because he has the skills to do so. I can only give opinions as a common Special Data reader. I don't have time : if I accepted every request that came to me, in the end I would only read other people's stories and not the books I bought. I'm not an established writer : as I said above, I'm just someone who writes and would like to publish. If I had ten novels published by one publishing house, I would understand, it would be normal to receive these requests. I don't know all the narrative techniques thoroughly : I write based on what I've learned by reading novels and doing exercises and writing short stories.
Just like you, I think. I have gaps like all of you have : and perhaps I always will, I add. If your story has gaps, then, I may not notice. I don't know you : most of the requests – if not all… – come from unknown people, never seen on the blog. What should this make me think? I would never ask you to judge one of my stories : because I know that it would take up your time, it could put you in difficulty, it could annoy you. I'm not sure that you will accept all my criticisms : I know that the faithful readers of my blog would accept them, because over time I have gained an idea of what I am like, but I can't say the same thing about people I don't know. You will almost certainly not thank me : as has happened for almost all the advice that people who have never seen or heard of in my blogs have asked me. So what am I talking about in the blog? Correct observation, linked to the reading requests I receive.
Otherwise, it's a nice invitation to visit that distant country that we know well. Maybe online is all due? Who knows? Maybe this is the perception of the average user. You have a blog and therefore it is your duty to give advice to everyone. But now it's time to get back to the topic of the post. I can't judge your stories I'm not an editor : I'm just someone who loves to write, like many of you. An editor will be able to give you professional judgments, because he has the skills to do so. I can only give opinions as a common Special Data reader. I don't have time : if I accepted every request that came to me, in the end I would only read other people's stories and not the books I bought. I'm not an established writer : as I said above, I'm just someone who writes and would like to publish. If I had ten novels published by one publishing house, I would understand, it would be normal to receive these requests. I don't know all the narrative techniques thoroughly : I write based on what I've learned by reading novels and doing exercises and writing short stories.
Just like you, I think. I have gaps like all of you have : and perhaps I always will, I add. If your story has gaps, then, I may not notice. I don't know you : most of the requests – if not all… – come from unknown people, never seen on the blog. What should this make me think? I would never ask you to judge one of my stories : because I know that it would take up your time, it could put you in difficulty, it could annoy you. I'm not sure that you will accept all my criticisms : I know that the faithful readers of my blog would accept them, because over time I have gained an idea of what I am like, but I can't say the same thing about people I don't know. You will almost certainly not thank me : as has happened for almost all the advice that people who have never seen or heard of in my blogs have asked me. So what am I talking about in the blog? Correct observation, linked to the reading requests I receive.