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posted by [identity profile] sarcasticcinder.livejournal.com at 12:59am on 18/10/2007
I don't see it as me being gracious...I'm being smart:)

After all, from what I understand you write for a living and you have been in the PoT fandom longer than I have. I believe the best, and most respectful, thing I could do is take your suggestions, as both a career writer and a PoT fan, and put them to work for me:)

I believe that I can only improve as a writer myself if someone is willing to be honest with me and point out the flaws (minor and major) in my works. It would be detrimental to my learning anything if I took constructive criticism as a personal affront to my writing skills.

Thanks again:)
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posted by [identity profile] 7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com at 04:39pm on 18/10/2007
I make a living as a journalist and freelance essayist, not a fiction writer. So there's a difference. Most of the successful fiction writers I know cannot make a living wage at fiction; success is determined by the fact that they've been published, repeatedly. Each has to supplement that career with other jobs.

Adding an abuser into the equation cranks up the tension so much that the story can easily get derailed by implausibilities, 2-dimensional characterizations and clichéd plot devices. You will have to really think out how you want to tell this story, even if it's an old story, one that we've heard many times before, in order for it to sound fresh and wholly Fuji-Tezuka. Otherwise you will get "My character is paysted-on, YAY!"
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