Comments on: Editors’ noses knowses

By: Michael Blowhard

Michael Blowhard — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:19:35 +0000

Enjoying exploring your blog and brain!

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:33:32 +0000

You’re welcome & thanks for commenting, I’m chuffed that you read my blog!

By: Michael Blowhard

Michael Blowhard — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:11:22 +0000

Your computer skills are ‘way ahead of mine, I’m sure.

Looks great today on a PC via IE! It looked centered last night on my home Mac’s Safari. Anyway: suddenly much easier to read, tks.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:05:07 +0000

Doh! I just got what you meant, Michael — you mean the text doesn’t have a jagged right margin . . . that’s a relic of the WordPress default template that I used as the basis for my blog. I think I can change that if I tinker a bit. Thanks for the suggestion.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:32:40 +0000

Yikes, center? It looks left justified to me! What browser are you using? I’ll look into this as far as I’m able but I’m afraid my technical savvy leaves a lot to be desired :-(

By: MIchael Blowhard

MIchael Blowhard — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:24:45 +0000

Enjoying your site and your blogging! One question, though? Why do you center all your type? I find it very hard to read. Why not left-justify it like everyone else does?

By: Duke of Earle

Duke of Earle — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:45:26 +0000

Wow.

I am much too embarrassed by my low score to share it with you. Two thoughts, though (self defense?) The excerpts were very short. Some of them, based on what little was there, were horrible and thus I naively declared them POD. Were they interior monologue from a character who thought in ungrammatical, childish snippets? If so, hopefully the surrounding prose would support those excerpts and make them part of an otherwise readable work. I’d love to see the basis a high-scoring editor or agent used to get his/her above-average rank.

Or, perhaps, this is just one more step in my continuing wonder at some of the (IMHO) poorly written trash that actually does find its way through the maze to commercial publication. I’ve picked up from the “New Releases” shelf in my public library book after book (maybe 5% of the total) that I can’t get into much less finish.

Taste? Perhaps I have none.

Again, wow!

John

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:35:04 +0000

Yes, I thought about that, Bernita!

I wonder if it skewed the results at all?

By: Bernita

Bernita — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:29:11 +0000

Agreed.
However, since some were from published books, perhaps the editors and agents recognized the passages more easily.