Comments on: Mrs Darcy, Episode Eleven http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2010/01/mrs-darcy-episode-eleven/ NO SOONER THE WORD THAN THE FICTION Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:57:36 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2010/01/mrs-darcy-episode-eleven/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 admin Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:09:33 +0000 http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/?p=1123#comment-2767 Thanks! I find myself wondering that too :) I think an awful lot depends on how much of an audience I can pull in as it goes on. If I could get some reasonable numbers (and don't ask me how many that is - I have no idea), it could provide leverage towards a "proper" publication. But for that to happen, I need to pull a few more marketing stunts. And I also need to make it easier for newcomers to catch up, so I need to improve the navigation. But it's an interesting exercise. My main worry before embarking on this was that I would make a complete fool of myself, but enough people whose opinions I respect seem to be liking it, so I'm less bothered about that now. And I take your point about "late forties". It's authorial intrusion. That's the problem with self-publishing - self-editing is always second best! Thanks! I find myself wondering that too :) I think an awful lot depends on how much of an audience I can pull in as it goes on. If I could get some reasonable numbers (and don’t ask me how many that is – I have no idea), it could provide leverage towards a “proper” publication. But for that to happen, I need to pull a few more marketing stunts. And I also need to make it easier for newcomers to catch up, so I need to improve the navigation. But it’s an interesting exercise. My main worry before embarking on this was that I would make a complete fool of myself, but enough people whose opinions I respect seem to be liking it, so I’m less bothered about that now.

And I take your point about “late forties”. It’s authorial intrusion. That’s the problem with self-publishing – self-editing is always second best!

]]> By: AliB http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2010/01/mrs-darcy-episode-eleven/comment-page-1/#comment-2766 AliB Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:03:57 +0000 http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/?p=1123#comment-2766 Yup - great punch-line - happened along like it was always meant to be. While I catch up I find myself wondering about how this is going to go, not storywise (looking forward to many surprises) but as a publication. Somehow find it hard to imagine it as anything other than a blog. It's ideally pitched for the medium. Meanwhile an editor's nitpick in Ep10 - 'in her late forties' just strikles me as out of place, or are we sending something up - again? AliB Yup – great punch-line – happened along like it was always meant to be.
While I catch up I find myself wondering about how this is going to go, not storywise (looking forward to many surprises) but as a publication. Somehow find it hard to imagine it as anything other than a blog. It’s ideally pitched for the medium.
Meanwhile an editor’s nitpick in Ep10 – ‘in her late forties’ just strikles me as out of place, or are we sending something up – again?
AliB

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