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| Re: Criticism is fine. "YOU SUCK!" is not criticism. It's just dislike. by junior allen 09/11/2003, 10:03pm PDT | ||||
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| No, it's criticism. Real-world criticism, and you better get used to it fast if you want to do this thing, because there's always going to be more people telling you YOU SUCK than patting you on the back.
Quit reading GRAVITY'S RAINBOW or THE RECOGNITIONS or whatever heavy-duty crap you're immersing yourself in this week, extract your head from your 12th Grade English teacher's colon, and look around at the real world. The real world isn't supportive fellow aspiring writers workshopping your prose and telling you where it's good, where it's bad, etc. The real world is K. Thor telling you YOU SUCK. Now, either you're immune to it or you're not. My bet is you're not, or you wouldn't lapse into such histrionics every time someone points out that YOU SUCK. But maybe you might surprise me. You see, I have some fellow feeling for you. I hate everything you do and feel somewhat stupider and less human everytime I read anything you've written, but, still, I have some fellow feeling for you. One way to say it: I admire the impulse, if not the attempt. As such, I'm trying to help you past the first stumbling block, which is the mumbled self-consciousness evidenced by "just don't read it "and the like sort of happy crappy. Stop that shit. It's embarrassing, and you bring down generally everyone who's trying to seriously do this thing, because you reinforce the whole faggotty "oh woe is me I can't take the real world with it's buffets and blows here maybe i'll just hide it under the bed" kind of crap that your boss and your girlfriend/boyfriend and your parents and everyone who thinks this whole writing thing you do is more than a little stupid and in fact kinda swishy thinks about you. Write or don't write. Nobody will particularly give a shit one way or the other; deal with it now. I had you pegged right from the very beginning -- you CAN'T take criticism, you DO rely on other's approval. Get over it now, or quit. You had enough guts to put your horrific prose up here now -- let's see if you have enough guts TO KEEP MOTHERFUCKING DOING IT. junior allen |
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