13/ No, the problem is not that McCarthy is hopelessly opaque; it's that he's trying to do a thing, and he does that thing poorly and laughably. https://twitter.com/anosognosically/status/1308099629511254018 …
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24/ Yeah, I'm sure yours does.https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308104805219471360 …
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25/ I posted the sales figures because
@TweetsBeach asked for them, three distinct times, IIRC. The reason I haven't defended my style is that you haven't asked me to. And, frankly, I feel no need to. >>>https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308106673656074240 …Show this thread -
26/ My defense of my style is this: I have been reading fiction for over 40 years. I've read thousands of books, some of them great, some of them terrible. I have read dozens if not a hundred books about writing, about style, literary criticism, etc. I trust myself >>>
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27/ to know what makes fiction work, and when it fails. And then I wrote, re-wrote, and re-re-re-re-wrote until my output matched my own [ very ] high standards. As always, I trust myself far more than I trust anyone else.
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28/ Anyway,
@TweetsBeach , you asked for my sales figures, and I gave them. Any further critique on that score? You want to poast your own?Show this thread
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