[ SECRET POST #185 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #185 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 104 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 ] broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 10th, 2007.
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Comments

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

7. I'm gonna come out and say it: Ergaon's not my kind of series, and even the professionals say it kinda sucks. But I admire Paolini, he obviously worked hard to get where he is today.

[(Anonymous)]

His parents owned a publishing company. Unlike most authors, who spent months or even years trying to get someone to even take a second glance at their novel, Paolini got his right away because of that.

He did complete two whole novels, yes. Which was hard work. But he didn't grind his fingers to the bone editing, rewriting, making it polished. Mommy and daddy sent it out as soon as he finished it. (Judging by all the contradicitons and errors made in Eragon, I don't think he spent much time planning them either.) It was pure luck that it got big.

Paolini is also a pompous assface due to his sucess. Ask anyone who's seen him at a book signing or whatever, and they'll probably tell you the same thing as I just said. Maybe I would have a shred of respect for him even if he didn't have a hard time finding a publisher (because come on, if you had that chance you'd take it), but I can't excuse his behaviour.

[good-odds.livejournal.com]

... :( Well, damn. I wouldn't have said anything if I'd known someone was going to beat me to it and say what I wanted to better than I did.

Also, I didn't know the stuff about him being an ass at book signings, but it really doesn't surprise me. (And it's one more reason to rag on him with impunity, so yay for that.)

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. >.>

Reposted for grammar.

[good-odds.livejournal.com]

Not really. His book got rejected from several publishing companies for not being good enough, so his parents published it for him. And then a big deal was made out of his age and the book became a best-seller because everyone was all hung up on him being ZOMG ONLY A TEENAGER ONEONONEONEONEELEVENTYTWELVE that people ended up buying the book, assuming he must be a good writer to get published so young. But one read-through and it becomes readily apparent that Eragon was, in fact, written by a teenager.

He may or may not have worked hard, but that's not how he got where he is today. He owes his success to a combination of nepotism (mostly nepotism, actually), sensationalism and dumb luck.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

...Aah, I see. I was just impressed cause the guy is MY age and supposedly has the same learning disorder as me and he got published, so I was like "Wow, that means I can be famous too!". >.> Idealistic girl-dreams, and in the end I guess it's better I didn't get published so early, cause my old writing sucked rocks.

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[good-odds.livejournal.com]

Aww! *hugs* I can understand that, actually. I always used to have daydreams about getting published ridiculously young, even though most books written by really young authors don't turn out very good.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. Yeah, if I'd gotten published at 15 I'd be among the ranks of GodAwful Professional Books. My first actual fanfics were in script format and I was awful at writing narrative, dialogue was stilted, etc.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[good-odds.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've totally been there. Well, not so much the script format thing - I never really did that - but my earliest writing endeavors were full off bad dialogue, choppy narratives and Sue-ish characters. (I didn't get into fanfiction until I'd already been writing original fiction for several years.)