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Jim wrote: "Apparently now you can hire a sensitivity reader to check through your bookIt's only $250!
Why is it everybody gets more than the writer, and cash up front before the book is ever published?
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Sensitivity reader? $250? Damn, I guess I'll just have to continue risking offending lots of people.
Oh, wait, I've been trying to offend lots of people! Never mind.
I have CREDENTIALS. Female, part Mexican, chronically ill, and physically disabled. Oh, and have a big mouth.I take sensitivity reading from no one. Ha!
Oh ferfuksake.Six months rewriting a book so as not to offend?
That offends me.
This YA story has given 'Sensitivity Reading' a boost. Having baddies with dark skins raised a storm of protest.On the basis that no publicity is bad publicity, the insensitive version generated masses of visibility. I am therefore launching an Insensitivity Editing Service. For £500 I will take your manuscript and litter it with casual racism, misogyny, gratuitous pornography and acrostics claiming that sex with vacuum cleaners sucks.
I heard about this a few days ago. Readers, get a grip. Get over yourselves and grow up!
I'm in agriculture, we were excused political correctness long ago :-)
David wrote: "For £500 I will take your manuscript and litter it with casual racism, misogyny, gratuitous pornography and acrostics claiming that sex with vacuum cleaners sucks. ..."I think that it's one of the best offers we're likely to get David, I recommend it to thoughtful writers :-)
Wasn't there a prize a while back that you could only enter for if your protag was a female who never got attacked/ assaulted/ dissed/ shot/ blown up/ thrown out of an airlock/ anything else that made protags interesting . . . ?
I think you missed the point of that prize, Tim.
Tim wrote: "Wasn't there a prize a while back that you could only enter for if your protag was a female who never got attacked/ assaulted/ dissed/ shot/ blown up/ thrown out of an airlock/ anything else that made protags interesting . . . ?..."If there was the publicity was as tedious as the stories would be, so I missed it :-)
I saw that competition. And I thought, I don't know any woman as bland as that. I get the point - but it's not real life.
A sensitivity reader! Sigh. I wish I could find something worth saying but I'm sitting here sighing and staring.
Kath wrote: "I saw that competition. And I thought, I don't know any woman as bland as that. I get the point - but it's not real life."given the ladies of my acquaintance it struck me the competition was 'fantasy' in the saddest sense of the word
Jacquelynn wrote: "It was worth reading this thread just for the laugh it gave me. Pity there's no 'like' button for the comments."yes I've felt that at times as well ;-)
Some people do indeed need sensitivity readers, because they're 'friends' with the sort of people who demand that books must be 'sensitive'; this group being curiously vicious when their demands are not met.
Joseph wrote: "Some people do indeed need sensitivity readers, because they're 'friends' with the sort of people who demand that books must be 'sensitive'; this group being curiously vicious when their demands ar..."if you sup with the devil, use a long spoon :-)
By sensitivity reader do I take it that this is nothing more than a US euphemistic neologism for censor? Another addition to the contemporary lexicon of thoughtcrime.
H.E. wrote: "By sensitivity reader do I take it that this is nothing more than a US euphemistic neologism for censor? Another addition to the contemporary lexicon of thoughtcrime."just about sums it up nicely :-)
Every day I seem to read something that just defies belief! Here's another one! I can't imagine them being rushed off their feet.
There's nothing new under the sun. The old name for this was bowdlerisation.
It's only $250!
Why is it everybody gets more than the writer, and cash up front before the book is ever published?
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