Comments on: On a cold and frosty night, consider the differences in critiquing style https://shepline.com/2007/01/25/on-a-cold-and-frosty-night-consider-the-differences-in-critiquing-style/ author | illustrator | digital designer Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Anonymous https://shepline.com/2007/01/25/on-a-cold-and-frosty-night-consider-the-differences-in-critiquing-style/#comment-2511 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:02:01 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1578#comment-2511 amount of critiques

Hi,

I found you through CC, so I can comment on this. It has, as someone here suggested, a bit to do with networking. But mostly it’s about critting a lot and stumbling into the right people who return the favor. I’m at CC since August 06, and now i have a ‘core’ of about 8 to 10 regular critters. Also, bear in mind that some people don’t want to crit chapters of novels, because they don’t like the effort of critting regularly and remembering the storyline. I have a novel too, and I focus on others who are writing a novel too. They’re more likely to return the favor on a regular basis. I hope this helps.

About the drinking, I’m from Holland. I think it’s legal to drink beer and wine from age 16, booze from 18. And nobody really checks in pubs and bars etc. The US is overly political correct, though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if too much drinking in a story will make it hard to sell over there.

Cheers,
Lucan

]]> By: bright_as_day https://shepline.com/2007/01/25/on-a-cold-and-frosty-night-consider-the-differences-in-critiquing-style/#comment-2503 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:25:23 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1578#comment-2503 In reply to Thomas.

Yes, you would hope that if you book did well and sold abroad, the foreign editors would make any necessary adjustments – although to be perfectly honest I read plenty of books by American authors and, even when I don’t understand a particular word or reference, it’s easy enough to look it up and find out! You can work out roughly what most things are just from the context. I’d be interested to know how, or if, JK Rowling’s books are edited for the American market – other than changing the title of the first book!

]]> By: Thomas https://shepline.com/2007/01/25/on-a-cold-and-frosty-night-consider-the-differences-in-critiquing-style/#comment-2502 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:02:14 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1578#comment-2502 In reply to bright_as_day.

I’ve given up caring what the Americans think, TBH – I’m writing primarily for a British audience

I think I agree with you. If something really doesn’t work for a US audience, then I would hope that when my book is released in that territory then my American editor would tweak any small references that really don’t work!!

I got some good praise for ‘effortlessly’ explaining what skyr and mjölkurtex is but then was queried as to why I hadn’t explained what haddock was!! 😉

]]> By: bright_as_day https://shepline.com/2007/01/25/on-a-cold-and-frosty-night-consider-the-differences-in-critiquing-style/#comment-2501 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:29:49 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1578#comment-2501 There’s quite a lot of networking goes on at CC – I think some of the people who get most crits have been members of CC for quite a while and make regular use of the forums to forge links with other members.

What amuses me is that sex/teen pregnancy seems to be an OK subject for YA novels, but drinking is considered shocking! I’ve given up caring what the Americans think, TBH – I’m writing primarily for a British audience. I’ve had good crits from US members of CC, but the assumption that everything we write should be fully comprehensible to Americans really gets on my nerves! I’d rather celebrate difference than become part of an homogeneous mass 😀

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