The Reader Keeps A Book Alive!
Correcting the final proof of my manuscript "It Happened Like This", makes me realise how really kind readers are to writers, editors, publishers. An earnest reader is constantly supplying his own to a book, enhancing the characters, trimming the plot, accentuating the drama. The dedicated reader is a ghost writer and reviewer rolled into one.
I think I am beginning to see how a book lives on long after its author is gone. It lives becomes of the space the reader has accommodated for it in his mind, and then protecting that space from the onslaught of memory loss.
No one writes for a reader but once the word leaves the custody of the writer, its the reader who is its guardian angel, the trustee for the safe passage of the word.
In gratitude...
Correcting the final proof of my manuscript "It Happened Like This", makes me realise how really kind readers are to writers, editors, publishers. An earnest reader is constantly supplying his own to a book, enhancing the characters, trimming the plot, accentuating the drama. The dedicated reader is a ghost writer and reviewer rolled into one.
I think I am beginning to see how a book lives on long after its author is gone. It lives becomes of the space the reader has accommodated for it in his mind, and then protecting that space from the onslaught of memory loss.
No one writes for a reader but once the word leaves the custody of the writer, its the reader who is its guardian angel, the trustee for the safe passage of the word.
In gratitude...
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