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Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 2, 2014 at 6:16 pm
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She had informed me that she was writing a book. Although not a fundamentalist, she is quite religious, and she made certain to mention being Christian, reading the bible and loving god practically every other sentence in the beginning writing that she sent me via email.
I am going to have to be honest with her that the only people who will buy her book are going to be other Christians because most people do not want to read religious devotions throughout a ficition novel.
She knows I am an atheist, so hopefully she takes my criticism to heart without getting upset.
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 2, 2014 at 6:54 pm
They never do seem to tire of prostrating themselves to their invisible sky-daddy, do they?
I consider it a character flaw.
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 2, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Yeah, tell her if she is going to brag about prostrating herself before a sky daddy, at least find a better sort of sky daddy first.
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 2, 2014 at 9:24 pm
It's good to get criticism, just be diplomatic about it.
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 3, 2014 at 7:42 pm
She needs the criticism, there's enough damn religious books in the world. Encourage her to study up on Science and write about that if she has good writing skills. That will likely curb her religious writing (and hopefully thinking).
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 5, 2014 at 9:02 am
(May 2, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: I am going to have to be honest with her that the only people who will buy her book are going to be other Christians because most people do not want to read religious devotions throughout a ficition novel. If she's in the US or plans on marketing it here, that's not a problem, and in fact can be a good thing. There's a big market for it.
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 5, 2014 at 10:19 am
(May 5, 2014 at 9:02 am)alpha male Wrote: (May 2, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: I am going to have to be honest with her that the only people who will buy her book are going to be other Christians because most people do not want to read religious devotions throughout a ficition novel. If she's in the US or plans on marketing it here, that's not a problem, and in fact can be a good thing. There's a big market for it.
There's also a big market for reality TV. That doesn't mean we need more of that shit.
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 5, 2014 at 10:33 am
(May 5, 2014 at 9:02 am)alpha male Wrote: (May 2, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: I am going to have to be honest with her that the only people who will buy her book are going to be other Christians because most people do not want to read religious devotions throughout a fiction novel. If she's in the US or plans on marketing it here, that's not a problem, and in fact can be a good thing. There's a big market for it.
I agree with alpha male, she might not see that as a negative critique and there would probably be a huge market for the book. It maybe the that all that critique tells her is that you're not her target audience.
The fundy woman I know only reads religious crap like that (the latest is a book called Heaven by Randy Alcorn I saw sitting on her dining room table last Friday... Doesn't appear to be a novel but a book of biblical answers about heaven... like there are actual, real answers... pshaw. 
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 5, 2014 at 12:55 pm
(May 2, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: She had informed me that she was writing a book. Although not a fundamentalist, she is quite religious, and she made certain to mention being Christian, reading the bible and loving god practically every other sentence in the beginning writing that she sent me via email.
I am going to have to be honest with her that the only people who will buy her book are going to be other Christians because most people do not want to read religious devotions throughout a ficition novel.
She knows I am an atheist, so hopefully she takes my criticism to heart without getting upset.
What sort of book is she writing? A novel? A chemistry text? A book on morals?
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RE: Oh, gosh, I'm going to have to be honest with my siser
May 5, 2014 at 2:24 pm
(May 5, 2014 at 12:55 pm)Chas Wrote: (May 2, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: She had informed me that she was writing a book. Although not a fundamentalist, she is quite religious, and she made certain to mention being Christian, reading the bible and loving god practically every other sentence in the beginning writing that she sent me via email.
I am going to have to be honest with her that the only people who will buy her book are going to be other Christians because most people do not want to read religious devotions throughout a ficition novel.
She knows I am an atheist, so hopefully she takes my criticism to heart without getting upset.
What sort of book is she writing? A novel? A chemistry text? A book on morals?
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