fcdc
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It seems to me that scouries should be denigrating you people for writing crap like that instead of you lambasting him for writing "stroke" stories as you put it.
Dear Scouries,
I have not read a single one of Cloudy's, or Sarah's, or Jomar's, or Dino's, or Severus', or Figaro's stories, save whatever they might have posted in the flashfic thread.
I can say without any reservation that they are better writers than you. They know the difference between real writing and writing for fun, for starters. As Severus said, you seem to be wholly invested in stuff that you write, not-for-profit, in a very, very limited genre, and do not appear to be thinking out of the box and trying to write other stuff.
They do not overestimate their own talents. That gives them more perspective, and room to improve. Room to improve makes them better writers - and better writers than you are, at that.
They know how to express themselves in posts on the internet without having their words read like the proverbial set of nails on a chalkboard. That means they understand tone of voice and why it is important to a reader. Clearly, you do not, as your "tone of voice" both in these posts and in the story that I have read is dull, lifeless, and ineffective, and to any writer rings desperately hollow.
There is nothing wrong with writing "stroke" stories. There is everything wrong with writing bad stroke stories. There is everything wrong with writing bad stroke stories and acting like you are the second coming of D.H. Lawrence or Anais Nin.
Porn is an OK genre - the reason I posted stuff here, as someone who had never written it before, was to learn about a genre I knew nothing about. However, being as insufferable a personality as Harlan Ellison is only "allowable" if you are a writer of Ellison's talent. At this moment, I daresay, none of us are. I'm certainly not - and neither are you.
PS Find me yet? Here is another clue! My American Poetry fellowship was in 2003.
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