I remember doing a writers' workshop critique at a con a few years ago - me and another pro one-on-one with an aspiring writer who had turned in, well, a pastiche of every B-movie you've ever seen growing up (yes, complete with giant ants). Both the pros - independently - we live in DIFFERENT CITIES and we certainly didn't get together beforehand to "get our stories straight" - told him the same thing - that this needed some serious rethinkng if he wanted to publish.
We both saw his eyes glaze over as he listened and nodded politely and then thanked us and got up and left, clutching his execrable manuscript. Which he was going to do NOTHING about, that was painfully obvious, because, well, BOTH of the professional writers who had critiqued his precious work were obviously idiots who didn't know anything at all.
Sometimes it is just not worth knocking at what is obviously a closed mind.
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Date: 2011-07-22 12:24 am (UTC)We both saw his eyes glaze over as he listened and nodded politely and then thanked us and got up and left, clutching his execrable manuscript. Which he was going to do NOTHING about, that was painfully obvious, because, well, BOTH of the professional writers who had critiqued his precious work were obviously idiots who didn't know anything at all.
Sometimes it is just not worth knocking at what is obviously a closed mind.