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Originally Posted by lin robinson  I guess I just don't get rattled by this, or really figure it's any of my business. |
But surely if someone puts something up for critique they are
asking other people to make it their business.
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I just doubt somehow that anyone - even anyone as unenlightened as not to belong here - would say something he didn't believe. After all, he said, "I don't see why it is needed" (personal opinion) and not, "they are all unnecessary" (dogma).
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Actually, Interference, I've seen people -- yes, even people who
are enlightened enough to belong to this site -- cite these kinds of things as dogma. They learn a new "rule" like watch out for prologues, or avoid too many adverbs or saidisms, and they go out to slay every instance they can find. On the other hand, yes, I've seen people mistake criticism of the way they handle some particular facet of their book as a flat-out statement that whatever it is they were trying to do is
always wrong. Hard to tell out of context whether either of these over-reactions is true in this particular case.
But rereading your first message, KSeriphyn, it sounds like the person who was criticizing your work may be confusing your prologue with a synopsis of a previous book. Do you think it may have read like that was what you were doing?