May-17-2011, 09:25 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: May-17-2011, 09:32 AM (UTC) by Albertosaurus Rex.)
Why thank you very much. You are always so full of kind words. I should do that myself more often, in my personal life. In get exposed to English a lot in my daily life - 99% of the articles I have to read for university are in English. Some of my lectures are in English, because we have international students. Most fiction I read is in English. Most television I watch is in English. It rubs off on a person. And yet, I still managed to accidentally type "were" as "where", the type of error that makes me cringe whenever I see somebody else do it.
Unfortunately, in writing this letter (which I have already emailed) it was very difficult to remain kind. I hope it is a fair and balanced letter - I didn't want to come across as an angry fanboy with entitlement issues. I did make sure to praise those books and authors that I did enjoy. But for the life of me, I don't understand what must be going on in their heads.
In the normal creative process, an author comes up with a story, writes it and sends it off to a publisher, often collecting a slew of rejection letters before finally being published. In the case of MtG, the designers make a card sets, craft a setting and accompanying storyline, and then seek out an author to write the novel. Fine, that can work. Witness the excellence that is The Brothers' War. But if you go that route, you need to get an author who has been published before, someone who's proven their worth. After all, given the very strict deadline, you can't really reject the novel when it's finished. So why, why, why have some newbie write the books? How did that conversation go?
Sometimes I read a book that I don't like, and I'll think "Well, maybe somebody else likes it. Who knows?" Not with this book. I can't imagine anyone, anywhere in the process, maybe not even the author, considering this to be a good work of fiction.
Unfortunately, in writing this letter (which I have already emailed) it was very difficult to remain kind. I hope it is a fair and balanced letter - I didn't want to come across as an angry fanboy with entitlement issues. I did make sure to praise those books and authors that I did enjoy. But for the life of me, I don't understand what must be going on in their heads.
In the normal creative process, an author comes up with a story, writes it and sends it off to a publisher, often collecting a slew of rejection letters before finally being published. In the case of MtG, the designers make a card sets, craft a setting and accompanying storyline, and then seek out an author to write the novel. Fine, that can work. Witness the excellence that is The Brothers' War. But if you go that route, you need to get an author who has been published before, someone who's proven their worth. After all, given the very strict deadline, you can't really reject the novel when it's finished. So why, why, why have some newbie write the books? How did that conversation go?
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Click here to see my grotesque little speculation...Sometimes I read a book that I don't like, and I'll think "Well, maybe somebody else likes it. Who knows?" Not with this book. I can't imagine anyone, anywhere in the process, maybe not even the author, considering this to be a good work of fiction.
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