So how have you been? Is it still a happy
new year for you? It’s been a very exciting week for me as Celebrations, but not as you know them has received two fabulous
reviews which are here if you wish to read them
I find it really exciting to get new
reviews of my work – that feedback is so valuable and it’s really interesting
to see how people are enjoying the words I wrestled with. It’s also nice to be
told how an element isn’t quite working or when I could have improved
something. My youngest son, just fourteen and beginning his GCSE syllabi, said
to me the other day ‘we don’t stop learning, do we?’ and, expecting him to go
running for his bedroom at the thought that life might end up being like school
forevermore, I had to agree with him.
It’s also surprising how subjective it all
is – I recently had some feedback on a work-in-progress and it’s extraordinary
that for one person the thing that made the book is the same thing that, for
someone else, made them not love it so much. I’m busy reading a series of books
that I had for Christmas which I’m really enjoying. I wouldn’t let the family
watch the movie of the first one until I’d read it and could watch too but
halfway through the movie, the story and character dynamics diverged so much
from the written version, it could have been a different book altogether and
not, in my opinion (again with the subjective!), for the better. The vision of
the director seemed to be wholly removed from that of the author. A while ago I attended an author
event given by a big name author and when asked what he thought of the movie
version of his book (Hollywood killed off the serial killer that he had
returning in another story), he said the important thing to remember is that Hollywood
writes damn fine cheques!!
Perception, it’s a funny thing.
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