It was brisk and breezy out there this morning but not nearly as cold feeling as the last couple of days. I did more navel gazing on Owner’s Share today. Sorry about that. It’s buggin’ me.
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Nate, don’t let the negative comments get to you and don’t worry about the length nor the form of the books you wrote. They were long enough, they worked, we loved them you pulled down a couple of Parsec Awards with ’em. Success is kicking you in the teeth and you are burning up time second-guessing yourself. Deal with it and get on to future productivity.
PS. D’ya think that J.R.R.Tolkien ever got flak for his books being ‘too long’?? (ha!) So no way they could’ve ever been a success, right!?
The book is the book and you should not have to pander to the lazy readers out there who either don’t read what you put on the page or lack the imagination to think about the other things that might be going on in the background.
Personally i think that most of the people that are doing the complaining are the ones who missed the all the subtle clues / hints as to what was going on in the background, this is not your fault as they were there for the people that looked.
The thing is, Richard – what portion of the audience *gets* the “subtle clues”. In addition, you have to sort out red herrings, subtle cues, and sometimes, you have to figure out which of two dozen different things the subtle cues *could* have meant, all equally likely from the information the reader has available, but that the author believes can only possibly point to one thing.
I was always trying to figure out what things meant, particularly throughout the second half of the series. There always seemed to be several ways that most of the “subtle clues” could be interpreted. However, by the end of each book, you could go back and pin down the proper interpretation for most of them. I still have some questions for some things that happened, but I really liked the way that uncertainty would keep arising throughout the books and finally be resolved by the end. To me, that is one of the things that make the series so good.
Nathan, at the end of this episode you changed you’re standard sign off to say that tomorrow’s another day and maybe you won’t whine at us about Owner’s Share. You’ve mentioned someone’s comment that the reviews are for readers not the author. Please remember that your walks are for you and not us, or at least not necessarily for us.
Other than feeling badly for you that you’d still fighting with the book (this may be due to me loving the book even if it’s Article 37-ness after many many trips through it in podcast), I have enjoyed hearing all your behind-the-scenes thoughts on Owner’s Share. Course I find myself on occasion yelling at the radio “but you did write that,” or “I did get that out of that scene.”
Thanks, Jen 🙂