Re: Let's hide the bicyclists behind parked cars. What could go wrong?

On 1/14/2025 12:30 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/14/2025 11:07 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/14/2025 5:58 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

He's also, in my opinion, not a very good writer.

There are always plenty of personal opinions. I give no credence to the opinion of a man who can't tell fiction from fact.
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Care to give us sales figures for your self-published paperbacks? The ones that no publisher would adopt, and which are now out of print?
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Irrelevant.
 People who write as a pastime or hobby and seek a vanity publisher, or more practically a book printer, are numerous and growing. It's a legitimate thing to do, even though it is not the same as writing under contract after a proposal to an actual publisher.

It's a hobby, in the same way as hundreds of other hobbies: sculpture, poetry, whatever. But a sculptor whose work is never shown, a poet whose work is never published by a respected press has no evidence of competence.
And if a sculptor or amateur poet says "That guy's work is no good," it's reasonable to ask what standard he is using. If the critic is a guy with ugly sculptures or terrible poems, his opinion has no value.
Our tricycle rider is a guy who's tried and failed to sell novels. His work did not meet the standard he set himself. Yet he's complaining about another's writing.
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- Frank Krygowski