Comments on: Please Don’t Call Me New Age http://www.ornaross.com/2008/10/please-dont-call-me-new-age/ Go Creative! It's Your Native State. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Orna Ross http://www.ornaross.com/2008/10/please-dont-call-me-new-age/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Orna Ross Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:22:14 +0000 http://www.ornaross.com/?p=379#comment-52 Hi Ari, Welcome to the site. Those perennial beliefs, that are found cross culturally, in different centuries, and different parts of the globe, are key, I think. Whether in India, Mexico, China, Japan, Egypt, Ireland or elsewhere, whether today, in the fifth century or six thousand years ago, and whether they are unmediated or wrapped in a (religious) packaging, the similarities are striking. Of course, pre-rational beliefs are also found in all cultures too. The point is to distinguish the difference. Hi Ari,
Welcome to the site. Those perennial beliefs, that are found cross culturally, in different centuries, and different parts of the globe, are key, I think. Whether in India, Mexico, China, Japan, Egypt, Ireland or elsewhere, whether today, in the fifth century or six thousand years ago, and whether they are unmediated or wrapped in a (religious) packaging, the similarities are striking.

Of course, pre-rational beliefs are also found in all cultures too. The point is to distinguish the difference.

]]> By: Orna Ross http://www.ornaross.com/2008/10/please-dont-call-me-new-age/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Orna Ross Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:43:39 +0000 http://www.ornaross.com/?p=379#comment-50 Hi Siobhan, Authonomy is, as you say the brainchild of Harper Collins, UK. Under the scheme, writers can upload anywhere from 10,000 words of their book to a complete manuscript online for visitors to read and rate. Authonomy uses the number of visitor recommendations to rank the submissions and then 10,000 words of the top five books are reviewed by an editorial board and HC offers the possibility that this may be a route to a book deal. I'm not convinced that the scheme is a good thing for writers. The main difficulty, I think, is that few real readers are interested in wading through a slush pile of unmediated writing. The readers at Authonomy and other such sites tend to be other writers, giving each other puffs and praise in the hope of getting the same back. In other words, it is good networking, as much as (or more than?) good writing that would take you to the top of the list. It won't do any harm, perhaps, to post your work but I wouldn't let it replace the search for a good agent or publisher in the old fashioned way. You will find a good blog and discussion at: http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2008/09/victoria-strauss-authonomy-slushkiller.html Hi Siobhan,
Authonomy is, as you say the brainchild of Harper Collins, UK. Under the scheme, writers can upload anywhere from 10,000 words of their book to a complete manuscript online for visitors to read and rate. Authonomy uses the number of visitor recommendations to rank the submissions and then 10,000 words of the top five books are reviewed by an editorial board and HC offers the possibility that this may be a route to a book deal.

I’m not convinced that the scheme is a good thing for writers. The main difficulty, I think, is that few real readers are interested in wading through a slush pile of unmediated writing. The readers at Authonomy and other such sites tend to be other writers, giving each other puffs and praise in the hope of getting the same back. In other words, it is good networking, as much as (or more than?) good writing that would take you to the top of the list.

It won’t do any harm, perhaps, to post your work but I wouldn’t let it replace the search for a good agent or publisher in the old fashioned way.

You will find a good blog and discussion at: http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2008/09/victoria-strauss-authonomy-slushkiller.html

]]> By: Ari Koinuma http://www.ornaross.com/2008/10/please-dont-call-me-new-age/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Ari Koinuma Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:34:41 +0000 http://www.ornaross.com/?p=379#comment-49 That's a new way of organizing world views. Pre-rational, rational and trans-rational? I can begin to guess what they may mean.... I do believe that there are things that science cannot prove yet that are true. One time I heard that every 500 years or so, we tend to go through a scientific revolution where all the views up to that point get tossed out the window. Then there are some beliefs that have been around for thousands of years.... ari That’s a new way of organizing world views. Pre-rational, rational and trans-rational? I can begin to guess what they may mean….

I do believe that there are things that science cannot prove yet that are true. One time I heard that every 500 years or so, we tend to go through a scientific revolution where all the views up to that point get tossed out the window. Then there are some beliefs that have been around for thousands of years….

ari

]]> By: Siobhán http://www.ornaross.com/2008/10/please-dont-call-me-new-age/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Siobhán Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:08:56 +0000 http://www.ornaross.com/?p=379#comment-47 Hi Orna, Haven't read the Amazon review, but I often think people who have more traditional beliefs tend to categorise everything else (other than outright atheism perhaps) as New Age. Anyway, I loved that aspect to A Dance in Time, but given your description above of your own "beliefs" I guess you're preaching to the converted with me : ) As I'm here - I wondered have you come across Authonomy at Harper Collins? I signed up recently and would be interested to know if you know about it and have any views given your experience as mentor and author. Best. Hi Orna,
Haven’t read the Amazon review, but I often think people who have more traditional beliefs tend to categorise everything else (other than outright atheism perhaps) as New Age. Anyway, I loved that aspect to A Dance in Time, but given your description above of your own “beliefs” I guess you’re preaching to the converted with me : )

As I’m here – I wondered have you come across Authonomy at Harper Collins? I signed up recently and would be interested to know if you know about it and have any views given your experience as mentor and author.

Best.

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