And who is this King of Rowan? On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Anestis Kozakis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 January 2012 21:52, <[email protected]> wrote: >> How do I submit to your forum please, as I have questions? >> >> I cannot agree with someone's comments on the Magician, as an author - >> presently because of the inconsistencies, I am not even sure it is worth >> with the effort in finishing it. I said this to a friend just now: >> >> I know writing a book is the hardest thing I have ever done in many >> respects, but I did not expect... well I was thinking on it just now - I >> expected to be enthused by other authors, perhaps sometimes not find what >> they are writing about to be particularly of my genre, but I did not expect >> to be left feeling disappointed because they make silly spelling mistakes, >> place things in the wrong terms - so what they are saying conveys completely >> the opposite to what they intend, to be so predictable at times - that I >> know what is going to happen several chapters down the line or in the next >> book. Not to mention inconsistencies - where I feel the effort I putting >> into the book in reading it, is just not worth the effort. > > Spelling mistakes occur because the publisher doesn't prrof-read the > galley. It happens. > >> These all appear, as much as I can gather in the book I am reading at the >> moment, and people say Raymond E Feist's work actually becomes less >> consistent later, and less well written. > > [snip] > >> Let me put it this way please, I find my own work takes me more by surprise >> its twist and turn on the whole and is less predictable - and I wrote it, >> than much or most of the work out there, and I have to say I found that with >> Magician. Take for instance the King, who is troubled with some malady, well >> I have not even read this yet, but I know that it will by his cousin Guy is >> it, who will have some hold over him, which is not revealed until later >> books. I suspect knowing the 2/3rds of the book of Feist's I have read, it >> will be some magical crystal or something. It is pretty much the same >> affliction, which troubles the King of Rowan in Lord of the Rings... Come up >> with something original writers. It is ironic, that "all" of my work shows >> more originality than just about any best selling author out there, and I >> believe is also better written, yet it fails to be given a chance >> to be recognised!!! > > You should keep reading then because you are wrong. > >> Here is my work, but it does strike myself that readers are taken for >> granted, and both are readers and authors are mired in complacent apathy - >> when far, far, far more can and should be done with the realm of writing. >> >> The synopsis for the book I am currently working on is below: >> >> The Tallest Dwarf > > So, basically you come to the list, put down Ray's work, and push your > own work as superior even though you are not published and Ray is > consistently in the new York Times Best Seller list? > > This screams of Troll. > > I think you might be on the wrong list. > >> Yours Sean Sebastian White > > Anestis. > -- > Anestis Kozakis | [email protected] | http://www.akozakis.id.au/ > >
-- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
