Fixed! I like this version much better. Poor TMJS gets the worst letters from his readers, you wouldn't believe what some of these women will put in a letter to a complete stranger. Married, single, it doesn't matter, they're shameless AND they have bad taste. One time his publisher made him dress up in a grey suit and do a book reading in Sydney or something, and he had to meet a whole room full of his awful readers, if you can even call it "meeting" when all they did was look past him and coo about his "adorable" and "scrumptious" cardboard heroes and bicker about minute plot points and who deserved what in books he's already forgotten. And the trashier and more fake his books get the more they seem to like them! What's wrong with these people? >:| And of course no one who reads his phony love scenes would ever like him for himself, in real life. They just think they would because they can't separate fact from fiction. No wonder he's surly.
Shouldn't there at least have been a bit of "BTW we are in a world where ghosts exist" foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is for the weak! Readers like to be surprised!
(Speaking of ghosts, though, have you seen The Ghost and Mrs. Muir? Rex Harrison plays a ghost with a colorful past who helps a widow write a best-selling book about himself. Unlike the RGW, he is frank and open about being a ghost the whole time. I feel you might like it).
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Date: 2017-06-08 01:38 pm (UTC)Shouldn't there at least have been a bit of "BTW we are in a world where ghosts exist" foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is for the weak! Readers like to be surprised!
(Speaking of ghosts, though, have you seen The Ghost and Mrs. Muir? Rex Harrison plays a ghost with a colorful past who helps a widow write a best-selling book about himself. Unlike the RGW, he is frank and open about being a ghost the whole time. I feel you might like it).