Interesting discussion and I also really liked The Cambist.
I don't think the reader needs to be fair just like I don't think the writer needs to be fair. It's not part of the agreement we make.
Though I'm glad you'll give my work another try. I am interested in exploring transgressive characters, so much of my work is an empathetic look at the bad guys. (A close relative recently read a story and said, "Why can't you ever write about the nice things?" I'm pretty sure she won't like my new collection, which has at least one nice story about nice people, but both of them are dead.)
I see what you're saying about the disconnect regarding current treatment. I might have looked harder to find a place to explain why Denny wasn't on Embril, or why that hadn't worked, but I didn't think about that and the images all came from other places, some imagined, some observed. The story is finished now but if I'd heard the comment during workshop I might have tried to address it in some way.
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Date: 2008-06-10 03:57 pm (UTC)I don't think the reader needs to be fair just like I don't think the writer needs to be fair. It's not part of the agreement we make.
Though I'm glad you'll give my work another try. I am interested in exploring transgressive characters, so much of my work is an empathetic look at the bad guys. (A close relative recently read a story and said, "Why can't you ever write about the nice things?" I'm pretty sure she won't like my new collection, which has at least one nice story about nice people, but both of them are dead.)
I see what you're saying about the disconnect regarding current treatment. I might have looked harder to find a place to explain why Denny wasn't on Embril, or why that hadn't worked, but I didn't think about that and the images all came from other places, some imagined, some observed. The story is finished now but if I'd heard the comment during workshop I might have tried to address it in some way.
Leslie