Posts by Emma Hart
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I'd describe mine if that were possible before purchase.
I could read aloud to you from it.
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You pitch to the gatekeeper.... Gatekeepers are not the market, and I did try to make it clear that I don't consider them to be such.
Matthew, this entire comment reads as though market=gatekeeper. You say, market controlling culture is already happening, and then give a bunch of examples of producers and publishers - gatekeepers - making decisions.
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If your pitch for a TV show turns out to be a dud, the market says that you die.
Resisting urge to niggle... fail. You don't pitch to The Market, you pitch to a Gatekeeper.
How many authors do you think get published out of all the ones that submit manuscripts?
Because Gatekeepers decide what they think the market will buy. Sometimes they get this really, really wrong - like the 30-odd publishers who rejected Harry Potter. Debates about artistic merit aside, from a market POV, they were completely wrong. But Rowling wasn't pitching to The Market, she was pitching to a Gatekeeper.
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Of course I might be accused of being biased, but early feedback from more objective parties definitively backs me up on this.
Actually, I'm surprised people haven't started taking you aside, patting your hand, and asking if everything's "alright".
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Is it the Hydo or the Grand in the last couple of camera shots? It's in danger anyways - notice the crows nest - cool.
Well, it's the Hydro Grand. Slowly making its way through the process of being demolished to make way for exactly the kind of tasteful time-share "villas" that get built on sites like that. Trivia - the name comes from the large salt water bathing pool it used to have - upstairs.
So here is an older photo
You look really familiar...
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Please, please show us the photos, I will show you my movember?
Dodgy as that sounds, I think it's too good to pass up.
He had little black wheels, too. And puddling around tonight, I found the Timaru District Council webcam. Look, that's my home town in nearly real time. I dunno if I feel nostalgic or slightly ill. But you can see the road I rode him down.
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The really sad thing, Ian, is that I stopped talking because otherwise I was going to share "interesting" facts about Timaru's surveying and road layout (and also giraffe photos), and then I'd be one of those tragic Internet People.
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My copy of Wuthering Heights is in near mint condition. All those dreary people, and ghosties, living dreary brutish lives.
Thanks for reminding me that I own a copy of Wuthering Heights, Deborah. I need some more bookshelf space.
I rather like my books dark and difficult. I'm a big fan of Tanith Lee. I don't, however, like my characters whiny and pathetic.
I also liked the Burton sisters story the way it was...
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So then there is consensus that an end point for this system can hypothetically be calculated wth a reasonable degree of accuracy. Not near mind, just finite.
Well, it seems to me the tiny problem with that is that English isn't moribound. Words come and go constantly, so the odds of me accidentally writing The Wife of Bath or even Bleak House are simply vanishingly small. So the point at which all the books that can be written have been written is NOT going to be reached, because by the time that happens, the language has changed beyond measure. Also, the world it describes has changed.
I've been thinking about historical detail in novels, this drive to be accurate which supposedly must lead to plagiarism. And Anne Perry came to mind.
The more she tries to be historically accurate, the worse her novels are. They become 'hey! here's some stuff I read! let me just puke it up for you'. Detail should be in the background, not the foreground, unless there's a really good plot/character reason for it.
So there's no more need for a paragraph on how Victorians cleaned their carpets (tea leaves, OMG) than there would be for that much detail about how we clean ours now in a contemporary novel. A good historical novel just quietly gets all that right without shoving it in your face.
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The answer is IV, BTW.
It's just tricky explaining to them why the three Star Wars movies are numbered 4 5 and 6.
This explains the problem quite well.