a note of sanity
Mar. 1st, 2009 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenstill thinking about this.
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scarlettina passed on the interestingly timed news from Patrick Rothfuss that the sequel to Name of the Wind will be delayed. Rothfuss diffuses things well:
Now I'm not saying you can't be pissed. Feel free. And I'm not saying you shouldn't express those honest emotions. Don't keep it bottled up. It's not healthy.
What I *am* asking is that you don't bring your frothy rage round here to my house. Screed away on your own blog, curse my name on a discussion board, punch your pillow. By all means, vent your spleen. Just don't vent it at me. It makes me hurty inside.
that's much better than a local author calling someone a "bad reader"* for complaining about another author online. *headdesk*
much better than the litany from author commenters of (as one Whatever commenter paraphrases) “Your anger is stupid. You are being stupid and unreasonable. Stop being such a stupid stupid-face, stupid.”
thumbs up to Mr. Rothfuss for acknowledging that readers' feelings are valid, and stating clearly that his feelings are hurt when he's on the receiving end.
still thinking about the author/reader relationship and books as commodities vs art. but part of what had been needling at me was the extremity beyond "don't harass the nice author" of "you are not allowed to be upset".
*in an unscientific poll of the people who live in my house, the phrase "bad reader" means that someone has poor reading comprehension. yet the person in question had demonstrated reading comprehension and composition skills...
scarlettina passed on the interestingly timed news from Patrick Rothfuss that the sequel to Name of the Wind will be delayed. Rothfuss diffuses things well:Now I'm not saying you can't be pissed. Feel free. And I'm not saying you shouldn't express those honest emotions. Don't keep it bottled up. It's not healthy.
What I *am* asking is that you don't bring your frothy rage round here to my house. Screed away on your own blog, curse my name on a discussion board, punch your pillow. By all means, vent your spleen. Just don't vent it at me. It makes me hurty inside.
that's much better than a local author calling someone a "bad reader"* for complaining about another author online. *headdesk*
much better than the litany from author commenters of (as one Whatever commenter paraphrases) “Your anger is stupid. You are being stupid and unreasonable. Stop being such a stupid stupid-face, stupid.”
thumbs up to Mr. Rothfuss for acknowledging that readers' feelings are valid, and stating clearly that his feelings are hurt when he's on the receiving end.
still thinking about the author/reader relationship and books as commodities vs art. but part of what had been needling at me was the extremity beyond "don't harass the nice author" of "you are not allowed to be upset".
*in an unscientific poll of the people who live in my house, the phrase "bad reader" means that someone has poor reading comprehension. yet the person in question had demonstrated reading comprehension and composition skills...
