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

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:54:44 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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.

Failure to sell something may only reflect incompetence at marketing,
or perhaps, a lack of marketing. Many famous works of art never sold
until long after the artist was dead and buried.

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.

...and yet, here you are complaining about my opinion.

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.

I didn't complain. I just rendered a judgment.

--
C'est bon
Soloman