So check this article out and let me know what your thoughts are about this. My friend Jeff seems to think that the reason why popular authors kind of insult each other frequently is the tall poppy syndrome. The tall poppy syndrome is when you have someone who becomes popular too quickly, that's the tall poppy. The rest of the people who have been working hard and things of the sort, they look at the tall poppy and they are like undeserved victory, and they criticize the tall poppy
If there's a gatekeeping to who is an author, and one of these that have been let in somehow defies this idea one has in their head of what an author looks like, acts like, behaves like, writes like and doesn't fit that, then there's going to be these responses, I think. I think the one that I found the most entertaining was that Mark Twain was so upset about Jane Austin. Not just so upset, but that he would hate read everything he wrote
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:38
So you are spot on because people have this incredibly romanticized thing going in their head that as an author, they are going to get XYZ and they're going to see ABC, and they are going to be part of these kind of and then they become part of these communities only to realize that, oh, nobody behaves like that in real life. That is only how people behave in representations. Right? Where in movies and such, the way author communities are represented is oh my God, so incorrect
No apology is necessary. If you do find that word, let me know. I'm curious, because when you think about it, humans, the way that we understand things is to sort of I mean, we've talked about storytelling before, right? We create our own stories in our heads of compiling the pieces of data that we've collected or observed or think we have