How Not To Write.

[TxRad]

How not to write. Underwater with a fountain pen.

The ultimate book.

A box of sixty thousand words.

Some assembly required.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Nowhere are the deficiencies of modern writing more evident than in internet magazine articles like this one. The whole thing is written on the premise that anyone has any idea what "contemporary literary fiction" is, and one of the commenters said as much. The author could have at least offered some examples of what he considers "not crap". Again, it was left to commenters to provide that.

If an article interests me enough to read it, I never fail to read or at least scan the comments. In most cases, I learn more from the commenters than I did from the author of the article. That was the case with this article too.

rj

You fell over my point. Few ever illustrate how writers suck. Twain dissed Cooper well, but Twain is a long ago cousin of mine with the same toxic bed manners.

 

[LewBrishess]

I'm guessing you missed my point and didn't take in everything I said. You can cut and snip a quote however you like, but it's best to take in all I said.

Oh, I read what you wrote.

See the eleventh point in my original post on this thread.

 

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[LewBrishess]

If you saw my point, then you'd know #11 doesn't apply to my way of thinking.

Yes, I know. What you meant is far more important than what you said.

 

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