But getting feedback from us minions saying, "What's Yoshi doing in the corner with the cat?" is a far cry from "I think Saburo and Keiko should get together and Takeko should DIE"... you get enough of that second type - the demanding, proprietory fan - and it's hard not to either (a) dig in your heels and yell, screw you, I'm writing this! or (b) start to read the onslaught as being a true and valid representation even of the silent masses reading your work. And then you start looking at it from their POV and doing what all writers do - trying to see all charactesr as positive - and you start thinking, well, maybe...
It's the noise-to-signal ratio. In crit, we're high signal. In general reader feedback, for better or worse, it's high noise. That's just how it is.
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Date: 22 Feb 2005 04:13 pm (UTC)It's the noise-to-signal ratio. In crit, we're high signal. In general reader feedback, for better or worse, it's high noise. That's just how it is.