Sometimes, watching other people make jackasses of themselves makes me feel tons better. Cruel, callous, I know. But it warms me to the cockles of my black little heart. Maybe even below the cockles. Maybe in the sub-cockle area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the colon. We don't know. [/denis leary].
And we wonder why people don't give SF/F its due respect.
You need to go read this man's exerpt. Seriously. In fact, go view his entire website (and yes, as every sharp-eyed reader of Miss Snark points out, he misspelled "metriculate").
Ten dollars to the first person who can tell me what in the sweet lovely hell is going on, because I had to read the first paragraph three times before I got past the completely nonsense terms.
Still, my enjoyment of this site (however mean-spirited) comes from the fact that I now look at my own work and go, "Wow. I am not the worst writer on Earth. I'm not even that close to the bottom anymore." And I was at a point in my life when I needed to be reminded of that.
Okay, I'm not even within sight of being the best or even really good. But I have, in the years I've been writing, made some kind of progress. I am not this bad. And this has a snowflake's chance of being published. Ergo, I have a little more chance of being published than a snowflake in the lower regions of Tartarus.
Good to know that.
But take my advice and bring the brainbleach, people. You're gonna need it when you read about the "essence of pilots".
And a wordcount to keep myself responsible:
Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story
Wordcount: Fantasy Story Wot Has Wolves and Nonsense
And we wonder why people don't give SF/F its due respect.
You need to go read this man's exerpt. Seriously. In fact, go view his entire website (and yes, as every sharp-eyed reader of Miss Snark points out, he misspelled "metriculate").
Ten dollars to the first person who can tell me what in the sweet lovely hell is going on, because I had to read the first paragraph three times before I got past the completely nonsense terms.
Still, my enjoyment of this site (however mean-spirited) comes from the fact that I now look at my own work and go, "Wow. I am not the worst writer on Earth. I'm not even that close to the bottom anymore." And I was at a point in my life when I needed to be reminded of that.
Okay, I'm not even within sight of being the best or even really good. But I have, in the years I've been writing, made some kind of progress. I am not this bad. And this has a snowflake's chance of being published. Ergo, I have a little more chance of being published than a snowflake in the lower regions of Tartarus.
Good to know that.
But take my advice and bring the brainbleach, people. You're gonna need it when you read about the "essence of pilots".
And a wordcount to keep myself responsible:
Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story
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13,914 / 100,000 (13.9%) |
Wordcount: Fantasy Story Wot Has Wolves and Nonsense
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2,525 / 100,000 (2.5%) |