I'm with you about tart apple pie-I make mine with Granny Smiths, a bit of butter, cinnamon and just a sprinkling of raw sugar-i hate gloppy sickeningly sweet apple pie filling. And sharp cheddar is good with anything.
i was a city kid, but I still had my sacred place a few blocks from home in a wooded area by the Hudson River-a little rock outcropping in a clearing in the trees, just the other side of the outcrop were the swings and sandbox. i'd run off there every chance I got, and wished that I was tall enough to unlock the front door and sneak out down the hill at night, and dance in the moonlight under the trees, and sleep in the little cave the rocky overhang created.
As for concrit, feedback of any kind is difficult for me as a non-writer. I do my best, but tend to concentrate on the bits of special rightness I find in my favorite authors' work, references for example, like your green man, or your Pan being Dionysian rather than Disney, or using the song about the wily fox hunting in the light of the moon in your Wolfpack story or your exceptional ability to bring a scene to life with description-of tastes, sounds, weather, so that they become living things. If I'm enjoying a fic, but nothing especially leaps out at me, I just from time to time say reading and enjoying, Thanks for the update. if I see a fic that I don't think is well written as a result of poor grammar, usage or structure, but interesting in terms of plot and the feel of the characters, I suppose I could comment, but I tend ton leave it to writers and betas . If I just don't like the subject matter or characterizations, I s top reading, because I don't see how I can concrit a person's imagination or issues.
So as to the kerfuffle, to me it seems to have less to do with feedback and concrit than a clash of thought processes and worldviews-folks on both "sides" are ostensibly speaking about the same thing- maybe in this case Buffyverse fanfic, but in reality although they are using the same words, they are not speaking the same emotional language. I don't think that you can successfully concrit someone's imagination or worldview, or fully understand the life and experiences that went into shaping it. And speaking to the ostensible point when hot buttons are being pushed right and left ? When people become so emotionally charged, they can't hear. And if you can't hear, yo can't understand and you can't mend.
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i was a city kid, but I still had my sacred place a few blocks from home in a wooded area by the Hudson River-a little rock outcropping in a clearing in the trees, just the other side of the outcrop were the swings and sandbox. i'd run off there every chance I got, and wished that I was tall enough to unlock the front door and sneak out down the hill at night, and dance in the moonlight under the trees, and sleep in the little cave the rocky overhang created.
As for concrit, feedback of any kind is difficult for me as a non-writer. I do my best, but tend to concentrate on the bits of special rightness I find in my favorite authors' work, references for example, like your green man, or your Pan being Dionysian rather than Disney, or using the song about the wily fox hunting in the light of the moon in your Wolfpack story or your exceptional ability to bring a scene to life with description-of tastes, sounds, weather, so that they become living things. If I'm enjoying a fic, but nothing especially leaps out at me, I just from time to time say reading and enjoying, Thanks for the update. if I see a fic that I don't think is well written as a result of poor grammar, usage or structure, but interesting in terms of plot and the feel of the characters, I suppose I could comment, but I tend ton leave it to writers and betas . If I just don't like the subject matter or characterizations, I s top reading, because I don't see how I can concrit a person's imagination or issues.
So as to the kerfuffle, to me it seems to have less to do with feedback and concrit than a clash of thought processes and worldviews-folks on both "sides" are ostensibly speaking about the same thing- maybe in this case Buffyverse fanfic, but in reality although they are using the same words, they are not speaking the same emotional language. I don't think that you can successfully concrit someone's imagination or worldview, or fully understand the life and experiences that went into shaping it. And speaking to the ostensible point when hot buttons are being pushed right and left ? When people become so emotionally charged, they can't hear. And if you can't hear, yo can't understand and you can't mend.
Oh yeah, and cats rule.
sami