Courtesy of a kind friend, I just waded through over 3,000 words of disclaimer and author's notes by the most self-involved author convinced of her own brilliance who ever convinced me that I won't even be reading her stuff when hell freezes over.

Leaving aside the fact that someone who has written a magnus opus long enough to be broken into fifty parts and requiring over three thousand words of apology and explanation before the first word is posted should just post it to her website and never mind trashing out mailing lists with her dumpster o'crap, the idea of trying to explain in advance to all of the readers not to write and say that something doesn't make sense or the character wouldn't act that way because It's All Part Of The Plan is absurd and insulting.

There's a way to write that leaves some events murky that doesn't actively make your readers wonder if they've strayed onto another planet. If you're so convinced that your heartbreaking work of staggering genius requires to be shrouded in fog half the time, learn the technique.

When you combine the promised muddy plotting with copious warnings about how dark and angsty and amazingly emotional the story is, I find myself looking forward to closing my e-mail program and getting back to work.