Comments on: Acknowledged

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:43:24 +0000

Ha! Such a good point. I can’t believe I missed that.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:41:58 +0000

Ooh, if I were a writer, I might have business cards just so I could list my title as “Collator of the Wisdom of a Veritable Horde.” I’d give you credit, though.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:39:07 +0000

I used to love those. I always felt pretty fancy when I recognized that so-and-so was clearly the drummer’s sister or whatever. Maybe by fancy I mean “stalkerish”–but I still loved them.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:37:51 +0000

Good strategy! I might try this.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:37:23 +0000

So it turns out people are far more fond of acknowledgments than I realized! Thanks for the lesson, all. The point still stands that Sacks is being curmudgeonly here.

By: Catherine Bybee

Catherine Bybee — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:59:21 +0000

I love reading them!
I love writing them!

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:16:13 +0000

Without the acknowledgements, it would be much harder to stalk the agents of writers I admire.

And now I also read them to see if the author is a Hedgebrook sister. If she is, I can tell myself it means I will be published too.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:47:59 +0000

I agree with what many people have commented (fun to see names, etc.) but above all else: It is gratitude, and we need more of that in the world, more acknowledgement that in fact we don’t do these things alone and that we owe so much to so many people.

By: jmrhu

jmrhu — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:26:49 +0000

George R. R. Martin has some pretty amusing acknowledgments. I always felt like acknowledgments are a form of decency – you’re given space to thank those who contributed. I can, though, see the other side of the bridge and understand why it might seem superfluous or unnecessary; the tags on shirts, for example, don’t exactly thank all the child workers or the retailers or the sponsors, etc.

By: Joelle

Joelle — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:12:49 +0000

I always like to put a little French into Michael Bourret’s thank you because he methodically edited out all the French in my first book, bit by bit, comment by comment! So yeah, having fun with the thank yous is part of it. C’est magnafique!