Great interview. Regarding the critics, it's not only teens who feel it's ok to lay into you. That's why I rarely submit my work to scrutiny outside of a formal setting. There's no point arguing with such people. Even Rebecca solnit had someone at a party expain to her what her book was about, even after she'd told him that she'd written it! Hence the term mansplaining, derived from her essay 'Men explain things to me'
Parallels of my world -- I was planning to go to the University of Waterloo (Canada's Silicon Valley, home of BlackBerry), but for some reason they didn't like the fact that I got 60s in math... Got my Bachelor of English as a default, and fell into writing instead.
I can also relate to the panic if the Internet died. That would wipe out my freelancing pretty much!
Nov 15, 2022·edited Nov 15, 2022Liked by Mark Dykeman
Another great interview, Mark - thanks, both! I learn so much from these posts. William, I feel I've just dived into a world I know nothing about - but guess what, the water's lovely! 😃
Great interview. Regarding the critics, it's not only teens who feel it's ok to lay into you. That's why I rarely submit my work to scrutiny outside of a formal setting. There's no point arguing with such people. Even Rebecca solnit had someone at a party expain to her what her book was about, even after she'd told him that she'd written it! Hence the term mansplaining, derived from her essay 'Men explain things to me'
Nice interview!
Parallels of my world -- I was planning to go to the University of Waterloo (Canada's Silicon Valley, home of BlackBerry), but for some reason they didn't like the fact that I got 60s in math... Got my Bachelor of English as a default, and fell into writing instead.
I can also relate to the panic if the Internet died. That would wipe out my freelancing pretty much!
~Graham
Another great interview, Mark - thanks, both! I learn so much from these posts. William, I feel I've just dived into a world I know nothing about - but guess what, the water's lovely! 😃
The soapbox lecture was effective. Now, I have a different view of fanfiction.
I love the thing about the world you create being a reflection of yourself. It makes total sense, but has taken me so long to realize.
Another great interview - always interesting!
Love this interview!
Very relatable interview! My former literary agent told me I needed over 10k followers on Twitter when I wasn’t on the platform at all at the time.