Thank you! I had no idea it was your favorite! One of my beta readers hated it because she thought Devnet was too weird to help Alex. She said, “I don’t trust that guy for a second!” Wasn’t expecting that reaction!
Yeah I don't agree with that reaction. I think weird people can be the most helpful, and even if NOT fiction is great when jt stretches the bounds of believability...also, "hated" is a pretty rough word to be throwing around about someone else's writing unless it's Midnights Children
I agree about the need for weirdness—Alex’s deliverance comes in part from embracing the weirdness in his problem and fighting fire with fire.
That beta reader had actually almost given up on the book because she was so put off by the subjects of the first few chapters. She toughed it out and devoured the rest, loved it (except for Devnet), and then when I asked her to check out a revised version of the intro she said Alex was irredeemable, and that was that.
Yeah I have to admit I had never heard the term beta reader before 2 weeks ago. Does this mean someone who reads a really rough draft? Or a nearly done one? Either way this interaction is hilarious (though surely maddening at the time). I have a family member in politics and he spends huge amounts of his life going door to door for votes. I've done it with him and ehat you realize in that context is tbag everyone is totally bananas about an inch in. And the same is true with writing critiques. Nothing gives me a more profound sense of the infinite varieties of human consciousness than the fact that some people react to a piece of writing pretty normally and then the next person just let's rip with something completely wild and possibly unintelligible
"... Don’t get lost in the hypothetical, examine only what you can prove.”
Solid advice for living in the present and preparing for the short term, not so good for the long term! But I guess we need to get Alex back to reality and away from the hypotheticals.
In a way, religions like Islam that believe everything is 'written' long before it happens and that everything that happens to us is 'destiny', believe something similar: But instead he looks at me. “If that is the reality of the world—that we’re plugged into some pod, or in a basement being fed drugs to imagine all of this, or we’re just microprocessors in some vast, dreaming computer…”
This is probably my favorite chapter man. Beautifully done.
Thank you! I had no idea it was your favorite! One of my beta readers hated it because she thought Devnet was too weird to help Alex. She said, “I don’t trust that guy for a second!” Wasn’t expecting that reaction!
Yeah I don't agree with that reaction. I think weird people can be the most helpful, and even if NOT fiction is great when jt stretches the bounds of believability...also, "hated" is a pretty rough word to be throwing around about someone else's writing unless it's Midnights Children
I agree about the need for weirdness—Alex’s deliverance comes in part from embracing the weirdness in his problem and fighting fire with fire.
That beta reader had actually almost given up on the book because she was so put off by the subjects of the first few chapters. She toughed it out and devoured the rest, loved it (except for Devnet), and then when I asked her to check out a revised version of the intro she said Alex was irredeemable, and that was that.
People.
Yeah I have to admit I had never heard the term beta reader before 2 weeks ago. Does this mean someone who reads a really rough draft? Or a nearly done one? Either way this interaction is hilarious (though surely maddening at the time). I have a family member in politics and he spends huge amounts of his life going door to door for votes. I've done it with him and ehat you realize in that context is tbag everyone is totally bananas about an inch in. And the same is true with writing critiques. Nothing gives me a more profound sense of the infinite varieties of human consciousness than the fact that some people react to a piece of writing pretty normally and then the next person just let's rip with something completely wild and possibly unintelligible
Reading IS sexy
"... Don’t get lost in the hypothetical, examine only what you can prove.”
Solid advice for living in the present and preparing for the short term, not so good for the long term! But I guess we need to get Alex back to reality and away from the hypotheticals.
In a way, religions like Islam that believe everything is 'written' long before it happens and that everything that happens to us is 'destiny', believe something similar: But instead he looks at me. “If that is the reality of the world—that we’re plugged into some pod, or in a basement being fed drugs to imagine all of this, or we’re just microprocessors in some vast, dreaming computer…”