[ SECRET POST #6491 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6491 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the repeated insistence of the authors that they passed it back and forth and that it's impossible for them to tell which parts are which is a pretty big thing to just airily wave off as irrelevant.

Especially when the only thing you're going off of is vibes.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if you're going to dismiss the comment with actual content and rationale about the writing and editing process and the sometimes limited creator perspective on their own work as "airily wav[ing this] off as irrelevant" then... no conversation to be had here.

Sure.

[(Anonymous)]

That's only if you assume that the authors are infallible in being self-aware of their own writing tics and tells and therefore if they say they can't tell, then nobody can. I don't think that's an ironclad assumption. If authors were that infallible, they wouldn't need editors.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course, secret!OP was saying that they could tell that Pratchett came up with the whole idea and then Gaiman ruined it all with his Gaiman-ness, not that there are random writing tics in certain sections. But ignore that!

[(Anonymous)]

...no?

The secret said Pratchett had "some good ideas" in the book that got warped by Gaiman into Gaiman-ness, with the implication that maybe those ideas would have been better off as a standalone book. Nobody said the whole thing was Pratchett's idea, or that Gaiman didn't add ideas of his own.

The only mention of "whole idea" in this thread or the secret is you.