Aw, you’re a good egg. I hope things will be sunny side up for you.
As to the writing style – have you ever tried the hardboiled genre?
Sweetheart, no. I make money editing people’s books. I’m a published author. Trust me, the only colour that I wanna use when I read Scylla’s emoting is my red pen.
Ok, so you can pat yourself on the back while honking your own horn.
Can you pat yourself on the head while rubbing your tummy? Try it. It ain’t easy.
Really? What did you write? I’m a published author, too! Ain’t it cool?
I just write for fun. I’ve never submitted anything. Editors and agents have come to me and asked to publish what I write without even asking.
I make my money in a lucrative if unaesthetically satisfying fashion, so for me it’s just an outlet that makes me happy. When I communicate something while writing, it makes me feel good to try to be creative. I enjoy it. It helps me, and I like communicating that way.
If you’re such hot shit, why don’t you make yourself useful and offer me a tip? Or, if I suck so bad, and am so far beneath you, than just go about your business and leave me alone. I know I’m not all that good. You don’t do me any favors by telling me how great you are and how I bad I suck by comparison.
The rub is, if you have to tell us that, the only person that needs convincing is yourself.
So little Ms. “I am a published author and an editor,” why don’t you do me a favor. Print this post out and put it on the floor. Then you can take your red pen stick it halfway up your ass. squat over the paper and edit the shit out of it.
Goddamn.
Ha ha.
Now there’s some flowin prose! Max Hardcore fan?
Ah, so you’re author of Pompous, Bitchy Self-Righteousness for Dummies, I take it? Excellent read; I couldn’t put it down.
Scylla: 1
Primaflora: 0
For my pair of pennies, I too have made money editing papers, and will soon hold an advanced degree in education, yada yada yada… Scylla writing is pretty good, and there would be only minor changes I could see if I put on my editor hat.
But… so what? Why is his writing style such an issue? Why is it an issue at all? Maybe I’m just likening this too much to my time served in highschool, but I’m hearing much of the criticism as the same sort of crap I got; jealous fucks busy asking “Why don’t you speak English?” whenever I used a polysyllabic word.
I mean, honestly… if someone earns your venom not for what they say, or their debating style, but for their writing style… well, I think you need lighten up.
Seriously. Craft =/= being a jerk.
And the first person to point out the typos in my post will have the wrath of Gaudere’s law hurled down upon them like little pointy toothpicks of destruction!
I usually avoid your threads since my attention span is pretty close to zilch, but I gotta say, after this line I’m definitely a fan. And since I don’t read your threads, I don’t know exactly what’s going on with you (as per the recent thread in question), but from what I’ve deduced, it seems like you and I are going through similar phases. You’re not alone. I hope everything gets better for you.
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses, Mark Twain
http://mark-twain.classic-literature.co.uk/fenimore-coopers-literary-offences/index.asp
Cringe before the instruction of The Master, and be silent, worms!
This is the part where you show me any indication anywhere that I hate you, or find you laughable for anything other than that particular kind of florid prose…and it’s not even YOU that I find laughable, it’s that particular writing style. I did not anywhere in that thread attack you, the poster.
Don’t go spewing that I have put “effort and energy” into “hating” you when I have demonstrably done no such thing.
Lezlers accuses you of being jealous of Scylla. You respond by once again attacking Scylla’s writing style though he has, to my knowledge, never solicited your opinion (be it professional or otherwise) on the matter. If it’s not professional jealousy, then please enlighten us as to why you’ve got a bug up your ass when it comes to his writing style? Surely you don’t march into other people’s threads and spit this sort of venom because we dare to dangle our participles.
It would be like the local pro mouthing off about my tennis skills while watching me play in the Friday night social. He may be spot on that my backhand sucks. The fact that OTHER people pay him to critique their game doesn’t give him a license to spout off about MY game. In fact, doing so makes him look a bit like a jerk.
Well, whoop-de-doo.
I make my money proofreading other people’s stuff, and from time to time copy-editing. I’m a published author. Trust me, the only color you’re emitting is green.
Oh, well why didn’t you SAY so? That makes your opinion worth SO much more than anyone else’s, right?
Give me a break.
I’m also a published author and a regular contributor to several magazines. As far as I have been able to determine, the only place this is even remotely impressive is my mother-in-law’s living room. (She thinks I am just the cat’s ass.)
Like fuck it is.
Anyone who puts their writing “out there” is fair game. “Style” is not something that is uncontrollable or unbidden in a writer. Writers can refine their style, mold it, and evolve. When you write for a teacher, for any class from middle-school English to a University 500 level Lit course, you will be graded on style on top of content. It’s pretty self-evident that style is just as important to the quality of someone’s writing as the substance. How many editions has The Elements Of Style by Strunk and White, been through now? 50?
Comparing style to an accent, which someone can’t necessarily control, is disingenuous at best and just stupid at worst.
I’m not pointing out a typo, but I am curious … I have never seen “=/=” as a representation of “doesn’t equal” before. I’m familiar with “!=” from my limited study of C++; is “=/=” also from a programming language?
Actually, it’s my attempt to represent what I saw math/philosophy profs do for a while, which is draw an equal sign and then a diagonal slash through it to represent ‘not equal’ .
Oh, you mean this thing?
≠
(U+2260)
How’d you do that!?!
(What’s u+2260?)
I’m totally clueless when it comes to computers sometimes…
Got a character map? If you’ve got Windows, it’s usually under start>all programs>accessories>system tools. It’ll bring up a screen full of interesting little symbols you can type by copying-and-pasting. This particular one can’t be done using keyboard codes, but a lot of them can. ALT+0153 gives you ™, ALT+0135 gives you † .
You’re probably not clueless, I just have a lot of time on my hands.