Hunkish blogging agent (Blagent) Nathan Bransford attempts to explain why you aren't getting published here. It's anybody's guess what the hell he's talking about. Here's a highlight:
Huh? Sometimes, the more they help, the more they don't.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
"Undefinable X Factor"
Hunkish blogging agent (Blagent) Nathan Bransford attempts to explain why you aren't getting published here. It's anybody's guess what the hell he's talking about. Here's a highlight:
Huh? Sometimes, the more they help, the more they don't.
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Seems straightforward enough to me. Why do you constantly seem to be baffled by the fairly elementary concept of things either clicking or not clicking in a way that isn't entirely rational or definable? It's actually quite common to love or hate things, people, movies, books, etc, based just on gut instinct. Seems to me all Bransford is saying is that there's that unpredictable need to connect to a piece. I've read plenty of books that I could academically identify as well written, but which I didn't at all connect with, and believe me, you wouldn't want me trying to sell that book, because it's hard to conjure up enthusiasm in others if you don't have it yourself.
I for one am baffled by someone referring to writing a book as writing a lottery ticket. I'm baffled by the need to write a long post explaining the obvious.
I'm baffled by his hair.
It seems to me he is saying that there is no accounting for taste (it's just "love" or not in the literary world), and yet somehow he has devised a 30 point system to account for taste. Just a little baffling from my p.o.v.
But maybe it is as you suggest, first anony. Maybe I am a simp.
I'm baffled by blogging agents. Period. Aren't they usually trying to hide from us?
The X factor is the school you attended, the people you both know, etc. Very important, and not just in the literary world. In the political and corporate worlds too.
Actually, I think if he considered it carefully enough, he'd be able to explain his "X factor." It ain't magic. It's something on the page.
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