Do you know what you write?

[CharleyH]

Got a cool PM today. A reader actually picked up on little deet that is subtle.

I'd forgotten about that oh so small detail about control, which permeates . . . even in vanilla writes.

Anyone ever get the feedback they are looking for? That points out what you know, but forgot? Or that points to where you are on a sub-conscious level in your writing?

 

[Guest]

Yep, it's the only kind I get, and I love it. Sometimes they see stuff I didn't know was there, but then I see it is; that's always fun. When I had my Callas poem up an opera singer told me I had caught the essence of the diva; smiled all day. People from Japan can't believe I didn't live there. The best is comments on the actual writing and style, makes me want to write more. Another special author didn't expect to like my H'ween story, and didn't (personally), but thought it was really fine and it moved him.

What you speak of is also the kind of feedback I prefer to give, otherwise I'm not into telling people they are good spellers or sentence makers.

anon, Perdita

 

[Guest]

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Perdita, love the Anna AV. She's sexy crazy sexy.

 

[Guest]

Perdita, love the Anna AV. She's sexy crazy sexy.

YESSSSSSSSS! So glad you know her. She was sex. P.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Got a cool PM today. A reader actually picked up on little deet that is subtle.

I'd forgotten about that oh so small detail about control, which permeates . . . even in vanilla writes.

Anyone ever get the feedback they are looking for? That points out what you know, but forgot? Or that points to where you are on a sub-conscious level in your writing?

I haven't recieved anything like that,I would love to have that kind of feedback. I have learned many more things about writing since my first submission and I hope to grow more as a writer since my days of drawing and painting are at a standstill. But it is nice to have someone else go over your work and point out what sometimes should be the obvious. Constructive criticism is always a wonderful thing.

~A~

ps. was the new AV just a tease?

 

[Liar]

People constanly point out specific things about the stuff I jot down that I only had a fleeing feeling of when I wrote it. Or sometimes things that I never even remotely intended to write about. I guess I'm just smarter than myself sometimes.

#L

 

[English Lady]

I get a good mix of feedback and it is often what I want. I want to touch people and I often do that. I don't get specific critique type feedbacks much but then honestly I don't really care for them. I know my grammar sometimes sucks..I blame it on being northern english...we muck about with our tenses up 'ere you know!

Anyway I digress, I get lovely feedback letting me know that the story i have written has done the trick!

PS...Perdita always sends lovely feedback! It is nice to get positive comments form someone I respect so much

 

[jeanne_d_artois]

PS...Perdita always sends lovely feedback! It is nice to get positive comments form someone I respect so much

My thanks also to Perdita for her appreciation of my work as Jeanne.

Jeanne

 

[gauchecritic]

I recently critiqued a story for someone and pointed out something about something or other and received a PM back to say they hadn't written that in, but now that I mentioned it they could see it. So I repeated my only first hand famous author story:

In a lecture at college I asked Barry Hines (author of Kestrel For A Knave which became the film Kes) how he includes motifs, themes and other authoral widgits into his stories. His reply was that he didn't. It's readers that put them there.

As I told the story writer, in my opinion, this is what makes a good writer, having themes, motifs etc without conscious decision and thus enriching the story in an un-noticeable fashion.

Gauche

Edited to add: It's how I write all the time, from 60 words to 6000, and it almost always goes un-noticed. (Except by 2 people who are more than willing to feed my ego concerning this)

 

[Boota]

Hearing feedback like that is awesome. I love it when people find things in my writing that I never intended, but I see it when they point it out. The fact that people are getting some really deep impressions from my novel blows my mind. I thought I was just writing a bunch of dick jokes, but they are finding all kinds of deep philosophical meaning in my characters. I love that.

 

[Guest]

... In a lecture at college I asked Barry Hines (author of Kestrel For A Knave which became the film Kes) how he includes motifs, themes and other authoral widgits into his stories. His reply was that he didn't. It's readers that put them there.

Gauche, I have to disagree a bit with Hines, though I get what he meant. It is true that readers will often "read into" a story their own interpretations, beliefs, hopes, etc., but the act of writing naturally "carries with it" our unconscious (for lack of a better term) at work (rather the way dreams work).

When I am ensconced in a poem or other narrative and truly "working at it", as in the craft and/or art of it, only part of my whole self is conscious, so to speak. I daresay this is true of you, and other more serious type authors. Otherwise, we'd be schizophrenic.

James Joyce's daughter Lucia was such. He said once, something like, "I dive into language, she drowns in it."

Perdita

p.s. I am glad you have some outside ego-feeders .