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I view author's notes with a jaundiced eye. I want to read a story that will hopefully pull me in and hold my attention. Author's notes are jarring and drop me back into reality with a resounding thud. It's unpleasant and mostly unwarranted, because if you need to explain to your readers what you're doing in a chapter, either you are not writing clearly or your readers are potted plants.

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I agree it's hard to swallow your pride and take concrit. But if you want to improve as a writer, you need to be able to put your emotions to the side and analyze your work more objectively than that. Needing to improve does not make you a failure. Allowing concrit to turn you away from even trying is failure, because you've let yourself become defined by what you are (a writer) as opposed to WHO you are.

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Well, there's honest self deprecation, and there's the rather obvious fishing for compliments sort of self deprecation. I'm not inclined to indulge the latter, because they'll only treat honest concrit as a flame and flounce off, and the former is rarer than Sturgeon's 10%.

::wags finger:: And there goes high tea for the conceivable future... I suppose I could use the reduction in sweets.

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Pen Name: BronxWench Story Link: Culloch's Rest - Chapter 6 Review Replies: http://www2.adultfan...iginal-fiction/ Type of Fic: FlashFic Rating: Adult+ Fandom: Original > Paranormal/Supernatural > Het - Male/Female Warnings: ChallengeFic, HJ, M/F, MiCD

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As an American, I find it just as jarring and off-putting. And honestly, if you've read all of the books as avidly and repeatedly as many of the authors seem to have done, there really is no excuse for superimposing American cultural norms on a story set in England. No one is asking you to study the entirety of British history and develop an urgent need to take tea at Brown's. Just use the terminology that Ms. Rowling oh-so-helpfully uses already in her books.

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