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I think the official reason if I try to log in is that I was sending out spam and flaming. The spam part is a bit idiotic (naturally), but I suppose the flaming part is pretty accurate.<br /><br />And yeah, some decent discussions, but it's always risky actually delving into direct feedback. Though, while the setting may change, the behavior doesn't, and I've seen that sort of attitude all the way up and down the writing world. Still happens in advanced fiction classrooms, still happens in personal writing groups where everyone is friends, still happens on professional levels when writers get butt-hurty about reviews that aren't just blowing smoke up their ass (smoke feels better than even a well deserved reaming, I suppose).<br /><br />That's why most good writing learning occurs in discussions and conversation where you can pretend you aren't talking about anyone's work in particular and just hope they get it on their own.<br /><br />Of course, that's increasingly difficult in places where most of the writers are hacks who hope dreams don't have to involve hard work or honesty... or worse, when you're on, say, a writing forum and they're more concerned with keeping the [paying] members happy and content and coming back. When it comes to the business of selling feedback and advice to writers, the truth isn't good for business. The longer an aspiring writer can be strung along with shitty 'show, don't tell' advice and notions that if they just keep pounding away at a keyboard with their hearts that, hey, of course they'll make it big... oh yeah, please purchase a membership! <br /><br />Writing is no longer a dream involving work and production, but more-so involving self-help and feel-good-group-therapy. Don't tell me I should be working or that there are objective, concrete things that I could be doing! I'm a writer, damn it! A WRITER! Here, take my check and tell me how great I am at showing and avoiding adverbs and that I'll make it as long as I have PASSION!popsicledeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006894817995038236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-37015114413496520172011-10-01T11:59:45.849-07:002011-10-01T11:59:45.849-07:00What were the official reasons you got kicked from...What were the official reasons you got kicked from the forums? <br /><br />That place kind of sucks because the moment you give any constructive critiques, the butt hurt starts flowing and the author defends himself as if you just jabbed him in the eye with your prick.Chivalrous Tarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11820325775710391967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-86365043455423793542011-09-07T15:33:32.764-07:002011-09-07T15:33:32.764-07:00There was a decent bit of uproar about it in a lou...There was a decent bit of uproar about it in a lounge thread, but you know who just deleted every single post that mentioned you. Pretty solid revisionism!<br /><br />Anyway, subscribed to your blog so you better write something decent...Meteorichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180504502365894835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-52728413236723316752011-09-07T15:11:23.150-07:002011-09-07T15:11:23.150-07:00Thanks for the sentiment. It's all water unde...Thanks for the sentiment. It's all water under the [burned] bridge at this point, I suppose.<br /><br />And I don't know about that. I'm sure the constant influx of writers eager to bow to the wisdom of simplistic advice and quick to click revenue generating ads will keep coming long after I'm gone. ;)popsicledeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006894817995038236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-13509168075232356902011-09-07T14:48:04.743-07:002011-09-07T14:48:04.743-07:00Hey - sorry you got kicked from oppressivewriting ...Hey - sorry you got kicked from oppressivewriting forums. <br /><br />They needed you more than you needed them though I'm sure :)<br /><br />CainMeteorichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180504502365894835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-90947350824459490272011-09-06T09:59:49.680-07:002011-09-06T09:59:49.680-07:00How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light...How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It's a pretty obscure number. You've probably never heard of it.Jacihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711355839367846924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-63062472329957631322011-09-05T16:10:25.550-07:002011-09-05T16:10:25.550-07:00The catch-22 is that many of the publications clai...The catch-22 is that many of the publications claiming and trying to publish edgy, experimental writing, really aren't. It's often stuff that isn't really edgy or experimental because everyone had the 'oh, I'll tell the story backwards, that'll be neato' thought in junior high, thought they were brilliant, and then matured to realizing they really weren't.<br /><br />It's like, the second you acknowledge you're being edgy or experimental, you're not. :P<br /><br />It's always a fine line, though. Kevin Wilson has a story in Tunneling to the Center of the Earth called "the dead sister handbook: a guide for sensitive boys" that sounds exactly like the title. The presentation is in the form of pages from a fictional handbook that even refers to other 'pages' of the handbook. The difference is at no time in reading it do you think 'man, this Kevin Wilson guy is really great at writing experimental, far out things' I mean, you do later, if you return to the story to study it, but in the moment it just feels like a story, and like that story is existing in the only way it could possible exist. It feels genuine and real, not like a writer showing off.<br /><br />So, I dunno, maybe it's more just the old problem of good writing vs. bad writing. Good gimmicks are seen as genius. The other 99% of gimmicks are seen as a writer trying to show off?<br /><br />Or maybe there really is some merit to the feeling one gets when reading a gimmick gone bad. The feeling the writer thought 'I know what I'll do!' And when the gimmick is good, it's almost as if the writer didn't set out to make a point or be experimental, didn't think 'I know what I'll do, this'll be awesome,' but instead almost grudgingly thought 'oh, crap, I know what I HAVE to do, for the sake of the story, I just hope I can pull it off.'<br /><br />As with rapping being all about the Benjamin's, writing should be all about the story. And blogging should be all about judging my fellow writers (I think, right?) :Ppopsicledeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006894817995038236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222525771269374381.post-71958237184162795552011-09-05T10:56:17.855-07:002011-09-05T10:56:17.855-07:00I think you made a great point in this, that it...I think you made a great point in this, that it's more about HOW you write than WHAT you write. A great example of this is found over at Duotrope - so many say in their publication descriptions that they want edgy writing, experimental, something new and exciting that blows them away with its magical creative genius.<br /><br />So I don't submit to those publications because, like you, I focus on the story and not the gimmicks. I have my own voice when I write, a voice appropriate for the stories that I'm telling, and if that precludes me from submitting somewhere, or earns me a rejection, so be it.E.D. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06919218250424892502noreply@blogger.com