Comments on: Who’s your audience? http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: GhostFolk.com http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-19383 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:48:29 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/#comment-19383 Kudos to you for posting it here. Thank you!

]]> By: Kristin Laughtin http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-19378 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:18:29 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/#comment-19378 Amy posted the exact quote I was going to comment on. All writing is an act of translation, taking the thoughts in our heads, which exist in words but also in images, emotions, and languages all our own, and putting them down on paper in an ordered way that will make sense to a reader, whoever our audience is. Like Cunningham says, the book in our head is a transcendent thing, and we have to figure out how to bring it down to Earth.

This piece also fascinates me because I was a linguistics major in undergrad and was especially interested in how the subtleties in language are captured when translating from one tongue to another. Word-for-word doesn't capture the nuances of language, and book translators have to work to capture the voice of the original.

]]> By: Amy Tripp http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-19377 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:43:56 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/#comment-19377 Thank you for the link. It isa fabulous piece and I'll be sharing it with my writer friends.

Here’s a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they’d intended to write.
Wow, did I need to read that (and realize I'm not alone).
Thanks again
Amy

]]> By: Em-Musing http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-19375 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:12:02 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/whos-your-audience/#comment-19375 Good post. Ishmael made me think of Ishtar which made me think of Avatar, but then my mind drifts. Cunningham however, is right on course (of course he is) with sentences needing rhythm and cadence.

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