Because I'm going to rebut that by using the same rule, the slushpile-to-purchase factor, much less the slushpile-to-really good factor proves that there is no such thing as a good book. (very toothy grin)
Different formulas of the same rule - the slushpile to acquistiion ratio proves that there are more bad storytellers out there than there are good ones (to channel Cordy for a moment -- "boy howdy!"). The low number of acquisitions point up the number of really bad submissions out there. Is the cat black with white, or white with black? Depends on which way you're looking at it.
And I will conceed the romance=characters. Which is all the more reason for it to go so well with F?SF. But not horror, which is also about characters, really.
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Re: A rebuttal! A rebuttal!
Date: 2004-02-08 10:23 am (UTC)Different formulas of the same rule - the slushpile to acquistiion ratio proves that there are more bad storytellers out there than there are good ones (to channel Cordy for a moment -- "boy howdy!"). The low number of acquisitions point up the number of really bad submissions out there. Is the cat black with white, or white with black? Depends on which way you're looking at it.
And I will conceed the romance=characters. Which is all the more reason for it to go so well with F?SF. But not horror, which is also about characters, really.