Yeah, a lot of writer friends of mine got sucked into it. A lot of people on my Reading List got sucked into it. People everywhere got hurt over it. You can't "walk a mile in someone else's moccasins" if you're not allowed to even look at the moccasins.
I like your beta-reader. If you're a writer, the story eats everything. The writer doesn't owe the reader anything but a story rendered as well as possible. What the reader takes from the story isn't entirely in the writer's control, no more than parents are in control of how people like/dislike their grown offspring.
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ebonypearl.livejournal.com at 05:51am on 08/03/2009![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I like your beta-reader. If you're a writer, the story eats everything. The writer doesn't owe the reader anything but a story rendered as well as possible. What the reader takes from the story isn't entirely in the writer's control, no more than parents are in control of how people like/dislike their grown offspring.