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Jongibbs linked to this one, and I found it very enlightening - I understood, after reading it, exactly how and why I'd been disappointed by certain books. It's also something to watch out for as we attempt to tell our own stories! Peadarog kindly gave me permission to link to his post, so here it is:
http://peadarog.livejournal.com/79367.html
http://peadarog.livejournal.com/79367.html
reader expectations
Date: 2010-01-08 12:19 am (UTC)But there will always be some folks that are on the long tail of the interpretation distribution; that's life. The difficulty comes when your reader response is all over the map, or all clumped over in left field when you expected them to be, er, mebbe a sports analogy wasn't such a good idea---what do you call home base again?
Though with a long time beta you'd expect hir response to be in the middle, which is I think flummoxed this guy so much...but people can and do surprise you. Even ones you've known a long time.
Re: reader expectations
Date: 2010-01-08 03:15 am (UTC)