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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/1rxs4wM:
I wrote a niceish but sort of crisp response along the lines of “i see you care deeply about these highly specific things, but i can only assure you that i’ve made the choices i have deliberately, and if you want to guarantee a particular thing i’m afraid the only real choice is for you to write it yourself’?
i mean, like, i’m trying not to be a jerk here but i am sort of real goddamn insulted that you think my characterizations were lazy errors or something? i said what i said on purpose, bro, I got a plan.
I mean. I’m not saying it’s perfect and I’m not saying the plan is rock-solid? So it’s possible at the end I’ll look back and say aw, dang, I never did manage to tie that one up? but like? that’s how art kind of? works? I think? c’mon. Like, I’ll keep it in mind that you think I’m making this character out to be too weak and I’ll certainly make sure to make it obvious that I don’t intend him to come across as weak in the end? but I’m kind of trying to have him be a character in development here so yes, there are some things that are not him being In Charge at the moment, and that’s on purpose. So like.
Sure, bring it up as like a general thing, like “you plan to resolve this thing right?” but not “it looks like you’ve fucked this thing up, edit it to fix that and I’ll be able to keep reading your story :)”
Nah bro. There’s tone policing and then there’s just expecting to be treated like a human being who is doing a thing. Maybe if you were paying me, but if you were paying me, I’d’ve turned in the whole thing and had you read it all to see if I resolved your issues, and we’d discuss from there, right? After I cashed the advance.
That’s how this works.
I wrote a niceish but sort of crisp response along the lines of “i see you care deeply about these highly specific things, but i can only assure you that i’ve made the choices i have deliberately, and if you want to guarantee a particular thing i’m afraid the only real choice is for you to write it yourself’?
i mean, like, i’m trying not to be a jerk here but i am sort of real goddamn insulted that you think my characterizations were lazy errors or something? i said what i said on purpose, bro, I got a plan.
I mean. I’m not saying it’s perfect and I’m not saying the plan is rock-solid? So it’s possible at the end I’ll look back and say aw, dang, I never did manage to tie that one up? but like? that’s how art kind of? works? I think? c’mon. Like, I’ll keep it in mind that you think I’m making this character out to be too weak and I’ll certainly make sure to make it obvious that I don’t intend him to come across as weak in the end? but I’m kind of trying to have him be a character in development here so yes, there are some things that are not him being In Charge at the moment, and that’s on purpose. So like.
Sure, bring it up as like a general thing, like “you plan to resolve this thing right?” but not “it looks like you’ve fucked this thing up, edit it to fix that and I’ll be able to keep reading your story :)”
Nah bro. There’s tone policing and then there’s just expecting to be treated like a human being who is doing a thing. Maybe if you were paying me, but if you were paying me, I’d’ve turned in the whole thing and had you read it all to see if I resolved your issues, and we’d discuss from there, right? After I cashed the advance.
That’s how this works.
