This and that
May. 28th, 2003 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenLeave it to me to not think of using the dumpster my apt complex has rented until the very last day that it's going to be here. More specifically, to think of it while I'm at work, which is effectively useless. I'll now get to find out when I go home for lunch whether or not it's still there, and if I can throw my broken computer chair into it. Which also means that I'll need to go shopping tonight for a new chair to boot. Not really my ideal choice, but oh well. At least I was smart enough to pay bills last night so I know how much spare cash I've got handy. (Again TBQ pats herself on the back for not giving in to the urge to use a credit card instead)
Thanks again to all those who commented on the Edwardian story part deux, both those who just posted to say they liked it and those who posted with other comments and suggestions. I find myself in a weird place with the latter, though, I'll have to admit. Not because I think everything I write is deathless prose that is totally above reproach, 'cause no, and not because I feel the parts posted are perfect since, as I've said, they're being put up unbetaed and more or less as I write them for the sheer purpose of tricking myself into thinking this is a series. So yeah, obviously, clean up needs to be done and will certainly be done before it gets posted to lists and such.
But since this is the first time I've posted a WIP like that I find I'm struggling to find the right way to respond to the comments to show that yes, I do know that some things need fixing and I do sincerely thank people for pointing stuff out but please don't take it personally when not every suggestion is going to be used. It doesn't mean that I didn't value the feedback. I do. Nor does it mean that I don't make any changes at all, because off of the top of my head I don't think there's a single comment that hasn't resulted in me going "Huh, okay, I can see how I could fix that." (even the one about the pool table, as for example)
So, as I say, comments good. But comments do not necessarily equal complete and total change. I've got my little posse of beta readers and they're the ones I finally go to. Not because they agree with me since how useless would that be, but because they know where I'm coming from, they know what I'm trying to do (and therefore if I fail or succeed at that task) and, just as important, I know where they're coming from. We've got our own little groove going and I'm happy with it.
Anyway, I hope that clears things up. Somebody wondered if all the feedback was going to make me want to stop writing the story, so I wanted to say heck no. I'm made of sterner stuff than that. ;) I'm not sitting here struggling to find the urge to write again or anything, I'm just struggling a little to find a way to make it clear that it's all good, even if I don't agree with it. Nothing personal to those I don't agree with, we just have different POVs.
So hopefully that cleared that up a bit.
Now to find out about that dumpster.
Thanks again to all those who commented on the Edwardian story part deux, both those who just posted to say they liked it and those who posted with other comments and suggestions. I find myself in a weird place with the latter, though, I'll have to admit. Not because I think everything I write is deathless prose that is totally above reproach, 'cause no, and not because I feel the parts posted are perfect since, as I've said, they're being put up unbetaed and more or less as I write them for the sheer purpose of tricking myself into thinking this is a series. So yeah, obviously, clean up needs to be done and will certainly be done before it gets posted to lists and such.
But since this is the first time I've posted a WIP like that I find I'm struggling to find the right way to respond to the comments to show that yes, I do know that some things need fixing and I do sincerely thank people for pointing stuff out but please don't take it personally when not every suggestion is going to be used. It doesn't mean that I didn't value the feedback. I do. Nor does it mean that I don't make any changes at all, because off of the top of my head I don't think there's a single comment that hasn't resulted in me going "Huh, okay, I can see how I could fix that." (even the one about the pool table, as for example)
So, as I say, comments good. But comments do not necessarily equal complete and total change. I've got my little posse of beta readers and they're the ones I finally go to. Not because they agree with me since how useless would that be, but because they know where I'm coming from, they know what I'm trying to do (and therefore if I fail or succeed at that task) and, just as important, I know where they're coming from. We've got our own little groove going and I'm happy with it.
Anyway, I hope that clears things up. Somebody wondered if all the feedback was going to make me want to stop writing the story, so I wanted to say heck no. I'm made of sterner stuff than that. ;) I'm not sitting here struggling to find the urge to write again or anything, I'm just struggling a little to find a way to make it clear that it's all good, even if I don't agree with it. Nothing personal to those I don't agree with, we just have different POVs.
So hopefully that cleared that up a bit.
Now to find out about that dumpster.
