SED - 21 October 2013
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teddy_radiatorSometimes I really amaze myself, I do. I'd written a huge message, then decided that I needed to change an add-on, which required me restarting my Internet browser. Did I send said message first? No. And now I've got to recreate it for you good folks. I need to have my head examined sometimes.
In any case, I found out today why no one was reviewing me on TPP - Gmail was sending all my TPP alerts directly to SPAM. I honestly was about to pull Labour of Love because I thought no one liked it. I found all sorts of reviews for all manner of fics there. I don't know why it's started doing this, but at least I know where to look.
Promptfest fic is going. I really chugged up a bunch of words yesterday. Today, not so much. I think I will finish in time, though. Well, ask me in a few days' time. We'll see.
Stepdaughter is coming in late March, and has told us she's going to be 'extreme couponing' while she's here. I got no clue what this is, or why she wants to do it. I looked it up and that's why I was removing add-ons. Apparently you can only 'do' these coupon sites if you have their toolbar on your desktop, which I don't like. If I want a toolbar there, I'll put it there myself, thank you very much. I don't like the way they interfere with my daily routine.
Mom and I are going to see TheHubs(r)' play tomorrow night. He was a little upset with the review, until I pointed out that the reviewer was critiquing the character, and not him:
"TF’s C.S. Lewis seems easily flustered and sometimes even uncertain, reflecting, perhaps, the conflict that brews inside Lewis’ soul. Lewis describes himself, after all, as a “reluctant convert,” and TF’s performance centers upon this seeming contradiction. TF gives us a Lewis who remains tentative, his ideas and convictions still forming, but a formidable sparring partner nevertheless."
He's a little happier with it now that he realises that. I think sometimes people forget that a character's attitudes and prejudices doesn't naturally or automatically reflect the attitudes and feelings of the person bringing them to life. I had a person give me a lovely review of Lay Me Low, then said, "I would have given you 5 stars if you hadn't used the words P*&^ and P*&^ter." Those are her censors, not mine. It bothered me that she said this, as if she thought having a fictitious character use those words reflected an intolerance or prejudice in me as a person.
As a writer, an actor, an artist, one has to get into the heads of the naked and the dead, so to speak, but that doesn't mean we agree with them or share their hatreds and prejudices. Life can be ugly, and people sometimes use words that people find ugly. It doesn't mean we condone that attitude or behaviour; we are just presenting it for what it is.
Ah, well, like Lewis and Freud, I cannot right the world's wrongs in a single evening.
Since it's Halloween, I thought I'd leave you with this zany blast from the past. Oh, Mr. Hammer, your posse - what is the yellow thing on his head? You gotta love the 80's!
In any case, I found out today why no one was reviewing me on TPP - Gmail was sending all my TPP alerts directly to SPAM. I honestly was about to pull Labour of Love because I thought no one liked it. I found all sorts of reviews for all manner of fics there. I don't know why it's started doing this, but at least I know where to look.
Promptfest fic is going. I really chugged up a bunch of words yesterday. Today, not so much. I think I will finish in time, though. Well, ask me in a few days' time. We'll see.
Stepdaughter is coming in late March, and has told us she's going to be 'extreme couponing' while she's here. I got no clue what this is, or why she wants to do it. I looked it up and that's why I was removing add-ons. Apparently you can only 'do' these coupon sites if you have their toolbar on your desktop, which I don't like. If I want a toolbar there, I'll put it there myself, thank you very much. I don't like the way they interfere with my daily routine.
Mom and I are going to see TheHubs(r)' play tomorrow night. He was a little upset with the review, until I pointed out that the reviewer was critiquing the character, and not him:
"TF’s C.S. Lewis seems easily flustered and sometimes even uncertain, reflecting, perhaps, the conflict that brews inside Lewis’ soul. Lewis describes himself, after all, as a “reluctant convert,” and TF’s performance centers upon this seeming contradiction. TF gives us a Lewis who remains tentative, his ideas and convictions still forming, but a formidable sparring partner nevertheless."
He's a little happier with it now that he realises that. I think sometimes people forget that a character's attitudes and prejudices doesn't naturally or automatically reflect the attitudes and feelings of the person bringing them to life. I had a person give me a lovely review of Lay Me Low, then said, "I would have given you 5 stars if you hadn't used the words P*&^ and P*&^ter." Those are her censors, not mine. It bothered me that she said this, as if she thought having a fictitious character use those words reflected an intolerance or prejudice in me as a person.
As a writer, an actor, an artist, one has to get into the heads of the naked and the dead, so to speak, but that doesn't mean we agree with them or share their hatreds and prejudices. Life can be ugly, and people sometimes use words that people find ugly. It doesn't mean we condone that attitude or behaviour; we are just presenting it for what it is.
Ah, well, like Lewis and Freud, I cannot right the world's wrongs in a single evening.
Since it's Halloween, I thought I'd leave you with this zany blast from the past. Oh, Mr. Hammer, your posse - what is the yellow thing on his head? You gotta love the 80's!
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Date: 2013-10-22 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-10-22 04:03 am (UTC)I actually found a review there in my spam folder just today. I haven't had time to go look but there's probably a few more there that I haven't seen lately (and there's a lot of my old stuff I still need to post there. Oy time I need more of it).
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Date: 2013-10-22 04:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-22 10:37 am (UTC)Some people do seem to have a difficult time separating a character's views from the writer's. If you are writing a racially prejudiced character, there will be certain words that you have him say that YOU may nor yourself use. Same way for writing a misogynist or whatever. I really really hate when a writer will obviously censor certain words that the character would definitely have used, especially in a certain time period. Or write characters that treat women as equals during a time period it would not have happened in. Retroactive history. It takes me out of the story when I'm thinking to myself, "This character would not say 'Freaking'; he'd come right out and say 'Fuck'!" Anything that takes a reader out of a story and makes them question its reality while they are reading it is a bad thing.