I mean - this is one of the things I *love* about reading your LJ - that chance to see that someone 'famous' ( = published) *is* a real person. I really enjoy that aspect, hearing about your family life - good days and bad - as well as your plans and preparations for the new book. But there is still a bit of the awe about it, too -- wow, I've communicated, in however a small fashion, with the person behind these books I've read, my friend has read, my mom is about to read (I've just lent her WS). It's not an opportunity we readers are normally afforded - that chance to see the person behind the pages. [Incidentally, at one of the fandom meets I went to, I was half-tempted to ask one of my favourite authors for their autograph, lol.]
I get a little bit of it too, actually. I'm nowhere near as big a name as, say, Cassie, but I've had a few people express a similar reaction, and I hasten to assure *them* that I'm just an ordinary person. So - I feel like I'm on both sides here. I have an idea of how you must be feeling, but it doesn't seem to keep me from experiencing a bit of awe, all the same. You're *real* - and you're special, too.
I don't think at all that your post on your dinner the other night was ostentatious name-dropping. I just thought it was ... wonderful.
I don't feel like I've done a very good job of explaining myself here (although I do seem to be good at starting every paragraph with "I"). But ... well ... I'm sorry if my previous comments made you feel awkward, because it wasn't my intention at all. 'Ordinary' person you may be, but since public names (published/recorded/filmed/whatever) usually tend to remain a mystery to others, it's still a special thing to me to be able to get to know you (and your fellow author-friends), even if just on the internet.
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Date: 2003-04-27 07:31 pm (UTC)I mean - this is one of the things I *love* about reading your LJ - that chance to see that someone 'famous' ( = published) *is* a real person. I really enjoy that aspect, hearing about your family life - good days and bad - as well as your plans and preparations for the new book. But there is still a bit of the awe about it, too -- wow, I've communicated, in however a small fashion, with the person behind these books I've read, my friend has read, my mom is about to read (I've just lent her WS). It's not an opportunity we readers are normally afforded - that chance to see the person behind the pages. [Incidentally, at one of the fandom meets I went to, I was half-tempted to ask one of my favourite authors for their autograph, lol.]
I get a little bit of it too, actually. I'm nowhere near as big a name as, say, Cassie, but I've had a few people express a similar reaction, and I hasten to assure *them* that I'm just an ordinary person. So - I feel like I'm on both sides here. I have an idea of how you must be feeling, but it doesn't seem to keep me from experiencing a bit of awe, all the same. You're *real* - and you're special, too.
I don't think at all that your post on your dinner the other night was ostentatious name-dropping. I just thought it was ... wonderful.
I don't feel like I've done a very good job of explaining myself here (although I do seem to be good at starting every paragraph with "I"). But ... well ... I'm sorry if my previous comments made you feel awkward, because it wasn't my intention at all. 'Ordinary' person you may be, but since public names (published/recorded/filmed/whatever) usually tend to remain a mystery to others, it's still a special thing to me to be able to get to know you (and your fellow author-friends), even if just on the internet.
Meeble.