Friday, May 25, 2007
Catching up
Mostly, I've been busy working on Magellan's Witch. Some parts are going well, others need work. I've moved some stuff around and now I've just discovered that a whole section is not in the order I thought I put in in, but I'm busy fixing this other chapter and now I'm irritated that I have to go fix that next when I thought things would be OK after that. me. frowning
Also, just as a side rant, I am really really REALLY sick of people making snotty comments about romance. I was reading an agent's blog the other day and in the comments, someone said, basically, how horrible a particular situation would be if people were gasp! horrors! reading a Harlequin romance instead of something else. Why? Just freaking why would that be so horrible? Oh, I'm just not going to get going on that. Reading is reading. And Francis Bacon himself noted famously that books are to be digested in different ways. If I'm at a point in my life where I want to have a guaranteed happy ending at the end of my book, why the heck is that a disaster that will, apparently, bring down Western Civilization as we know it? I believe the commenter managed to insult Comic books, too. me. rolling eyes and trying hard not to bust a gut.
Oh, just Sigh. I have to go back to fixing crap.
Also, just as a side rant, I am really really REALLY sick of people making snotty comments about romance. I was reading an agent's blog the other day and in the comments, someone said, basically, how horrible a particular situation would be if people were gasp! horrors! reading a Harlequin romance instead of something else. Why? Just freaking why would that be so horrible? Oh, I'm just not going to get going on that. Reading is reading. And Francis Bacon himself noted famously that books are to be digested in different ways. If I'm at a point in my life where I want to have a guaranteed happy ending at the end of my book, why the heck is that a disaster that will, apparently, bring down Western Civilization as we know it? I believe the commenter managed to insult Comic books, too. me. rolling eyes and trying hard not to bust a gut.
Oh, just Sigh. I have to go back to fixing crap.
Labels: Magellan's Witch, Rants, ripping to shreds, romance genre
posted by Carolyn @ 5/25/2007 09:13:00 PM Permalink
Comments:
I know the blog you're posting about and I read that comment. It made me laugh - partly about the graphic novels. My friend is a children's librarian (and this covers teens) and she found that graphic novels were a way to get teenaged boys to read when they'd been turned off it before. After graphic novels they widened their reading to include other forms, so it got them and kept them reading. Who's to say that romance doesn't do the same for others? I shouldn't be surprised at other people's prejudice regarding romance or graphic novels (or, I'm sure, science fiction/ fantasy or horror) but it is disheartening when their prejudice rears its ugly head.
Merry, you are absolutely right. In fact, my son wasn't much of a reader at all until I bought him a Weekly World News. (featuring Bat Boy, and Dinosaurs found in Primordial soup!) For the first time ever he stayed up late to read. After that, comic books caught his interest. Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, The Bone series. Also MAD magazine.
Maybe I'm chicken not to have responded to the post, but I was just so mad when I read it!
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Maybe I'm chicken not to have responded to the post, but I was just so mad when I read it!
