Comments on: Do you notice how far you are from your recent perception?

By: BookerTalk

BookerTalk — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 15:07:21 +0000

I wonder if its related to the brain’s capacity to connect different pieces of info and then re-assemble them in a new order so we get a different view ? A scientist will probably tell me I’m talking rot but it’s good to speculate

By: readerwitch

readerwitch — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:07:19 +0000

In reply to BookerTalk.

Thanks for your comment! I really enjoyed it. I’m still not sure how this change in perspective happens and if it’s linear – I mean it seems that sometimes it takes years and sometimes it’s just a few weeks? It’s strange 🙂 and interesting.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 06:40:47 +0000

In reply to readerwitch. I think I get to a point where I need to end the story, but that's just me. I can always play with it though...

By: BookerTalk

BookerTalk — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:58:56 +0000

Sometimes when I read an old review it feels like it was written by a different person. I suspect authors fall into a few different camps: those who are constantly tinkering with their text and maybe never finish, those who do a first draft, first rewrite, and maybe a polish before sending it to the agent/publishers and those who just do a first draft, a polish and then send off. I’ve certainly experienced many books that fall into the last category and they would really have benefited from stronger editing/rewriting.

Do our perceptions change? I believe they do as we mature. I read Jane Austen when I was a teenager and couldn’t understand what people meant when they talked about her wit. I couldn’t find anything funny at all. But reading her in my early 30s, the wit just popped out immediately

By: readerwitch

readerwitch — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:33:38 +0000

In reply to Simon.

yeah, exactly. Do you ever feel like you are ready with your story or is there always something you think you can add or change?
I am thinking now about all those books read at the wrong time as obligatory school reading, butchered. But then again, maybe it worked for some. I discovered Nabokov via school curriculum but it took me a couple of decades to forgive War and Peace and to return to it again 🙂

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:30:18 +0000

I know what you’re saying here, if a writer kept going they would never finish so it needs publishing. Also a reader will read and take things from their own unique perspective… interesting isn’t it?