Nerves of Aluminum
Apr. 9th, 2012 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI came across this review this morning: Requires Hate: Archangel Protocol. Actually, I was warned away from it by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naomikritzer, but I read it anyway.
I'm not posting this because I need sympathy. I'm posting this to curb the impluse to click on the "reply" button at the bottom of the review page. I don't actually want to engage, because it seems one of my biggest sins in the reviewer's eye is my atrocious dialogue and, frankly, I don't have a big argument there. My partner knows that if she wants to see me blush and cringe, she can read some passages of ARCHANGEL PROTOCOL out loud. I actually also agree that my generic heroine was a bit generic and sometimes so stupid as to be a plot coupon. (I got that complaint in writers' group. I ignored them to my own peril.) I also liked Rebeckah enough to make her a p.o.v. heroine in a follow-up book.
But, I also happen to still believe there are moments of pure brilliance there.
The thing that really, really had my trigger finger itching was the commentary. The glee that is shown for the fact that my series is out-of-print made me want to say, "Hey, you haters don't get revenge after all. I'm still writing! Published several books after that one! Ha!"
But of course, all this would hit when I'm feeling rather vunerable in that regard. I haz no contract currently, and I'm even kind of feeling like I will never be a master at slash because I'm not very good at teh p0rn.
So sad.
I promised Shawn that I'd have a proposal done today, so I'm going to have to put my head down in a minute and get serious about that.
Ah, well. In other news, we had a nice Easter dinner with Shawn's brother Greg's family. We have skipped a lot of these family gatherings over the last several years for various reasons, but it was good to go. Mason had a tremendous time. I managed to not feel too awkward.
Mason will be testing for his blue stripe this weekend, so we're going to try to step up our KSW goings. I also get to start Japanese bokkon (sword) this Wednesday, and I'm seriously looking forward to that.
naomikritzer, but I read it anyway.I'm not posting this because I need sympathy. I'm posting this to curb the impluse to click on the "reply" button at the bottom of the review page. I don't actually want to engage, because it seems one of my biggest sins in the reviewer's eye is my atrocious dialogue and, frankly, I don't have a big argument there. My partner knows that if she wants to see me blush and cringe, she can read some passages of ARCHANGEL PROTOCOL out loud. I actually also agree that my generic heroine was a bit generic and sometimes so stupid as to be a plot coupon. (I got that complaint in writers' group. I ignored them to my own peril.) I also liked Rebeckah enough to make her a p.o.v. heroine in a follow-up book.
But, I also happen to still believe there are moments of pure brilliance there.
The thing that really, really had my trigger finger itching was the commentary. The glee that is shown for the fact that my series is out-of-print made me want to say, "Hey, you haters don't get revenge after all. I'm still writing! Published several books after that one! Ha!"
But of course, all this would hit when I'm feeling rather vunerable in that regard. I haz no contract currently, and I'm even kind of feeling like I will never be a master at slash because I'm not very good at teh p0rn.
So sad.
I promised Shawn that I'd have a proposal done today, so I'm going to have to put my head down in a minute and get serious about that.
Ah, well. In other news, we had a nice Easter dinner with Shawn's brother Greg's family. We have skipped a lot of these family gatherings over the last several years for various reasons, but it was good to go. Mason had a tremendous time. I managed to not feel too awkward.
Mason will be testing for his blue stripe this weekend, so we're going to try to step up our KSW goings. I also get to start Japanese bokkon (sword) this Wednesday, and I'm seriously looking forward to that.
Re: Shake off that punch in the nose
Date: 2012-04-12 05:06 pm (UTC)