Comments on Authorial Intrusions

Today on The Stranger blog:

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You should read The Stranger!

Faith yes. There is always the Rambly Question Guy. It's gotten so that my wife and I laugh audibly and poke each other in the sides when one of them starts up.

In last night's news, four UK citizens from Britain were arrested for sex tourism crimes they committed in Thailand.

Friends of yours, Will?

The only questions I want to hear authors answered are EXTREMELY DETAILED descriptions of the tools they use to write with -- "pen and paper? what kind of paper? What kind of pen? .5 or .3 mm tip? I see. Staples or Office Max? Service pack three on Word?"

No, I was just pointing out that assuming the audience member was not thinking of that or a related incident at the time is a failure of the author taking a comment out of context.

Context is personal. The author controls less than s/he realizes.

funny, the only impression i was left with after reading ed lin's article was that he sounded like a condescending dickhead.

The annoying Q&A audience is also a terrible problem at SIFF, I have noticed. I can't attend the Q&As anymore. It's just too cringeworthy.

The ugliest, most uncomfortable part of being a novelist? Not making any money.

I enjoyed the article. The extreme members of any fandom are always worth cringing at.