Litiquette V

[aussiegeekygal]

I've always favored brevity. Growing up in Japan and Germany taught me efficiency and precision of language. I don't have the patience for fluff most of the time.

 

[Suz_anne]

I had a boss who once explained the best way to work with him: Be brief, be bright, be gone.

15+ years later, I use the same sentiment with my own staff.

 

[DarkSimian]

I had a boss who once explained the best way to work with him: Be brief, be bright, be gone.

15+ years later, I use the same sentiment with my own staff.

I guess that is the best way to handle your staff

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I had a boss who once explained the best way to work with him: Be brief, be bright, be gone.

15+ years later, I use the same sentiment with my own staff.

I love him

 

[Mindfondler]

So much relies on the written word here. Some are eloquent, some not so much. Have your writing skills improved since you started posting?

I'm not sure that my writing skills have improved. I've always had a factual report-writing style that betrays my background. I've remained rubbish, though, at writing stories.

So much relies on the written word here. Some are eloquent, some not so much. Have your writing skills improved since you started posting? Has your style changed to adapt to the room?

I guess I have developed some chameleon-like qualities.

Do you favor brevity more than you once did or do you enjoy the long, detailed posts the seem to cover every nuance?

Brevity? Me? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
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[ViciousTease]

So much relies on the written word here. Some are eloquent, some not so much. Have your writing skills improved since you started posting? Has your style changed to adapt to the room? Do you favor brevity more than you once did or do you enjoy the long, detailed posts the seem to cover every nuance?

I don't know that I've improved, but I'm certainly more aware of my short comings. My story writing style has certainly changed, but my chatter is the same. I type as I would say it. I prefer a complete answer. If that can be achieved with few words, great. If not, I'm fine with that too.

 

[UnchainedWordist]

I don't know that I've improved, but I'm certainly more aware of my short comings. My story writing style has certainly changed, but my chatter is the same. I type as I would say it. I prefer a complete answer. If that can be achieved with few words, great. If not, I'm fine with that too.

My writing has improved since I joined lit a decade ago. Or maybe I've simply become more adept at expressing myself. Either way, I can write whatever I need to write in any moment.

 

[Trekka]

So much relies on the written word here. Some are eloquent, some not so much. Have your writing skills improved since you started posting? Has your style changed to adapt to the room? Do you favor brevity more than you once did or do you enjoy the long, detailed posts the seem to cover every nuance?

They've improved. Immensely. Especially with respect to describing genitalia and sexual bodily fluids.

Style fairly unchanged. I write like I talk.

Long detailed posts have to be broken up with *something* so the eye can enjoy the process of reading them. Be it dialogue, or bullet points. Stacatto sentences.

Weird
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Dots

Something to break up the visual monotony of epic expository prose. Elsewise this here blondie is off!

Honestly the coolest thing lit has done for my writing is that my forum-speak has improved. Expressing myself using asterisks and other forum oddities is like sport.

My Facebook posts and text messages are, like, way funnier now.

 

[Endless_Night]

Improved? Maybe. A little. I am actually quite articulate in person, less so when it comes to lingua literotica.

My style has changed. Definitely. My natural milieu is one of long-winded, detailed, nuance-filled posts. I like wordy.

If it seems appropriate, I still veer that way, but if I find myself in a sea of snappy one liners I favor brevity.

Wit and eloquence are not part of my repertoire, in either style.

I’ve learned much from reading Trekka. She is adept at forum speak. I'm not any funnier, you understand, but I do, "break break up the visual monotony of epic expository prose."

Obi-wan Trekka.

 

[Paul_Chance]

I'm a slave to nuance and I love details and context. Otherwise, I might as well just be on Twitter. Life is lived in tiny details.

Boxers. The lads need room to breath.

I appreciate push-up bras and anything that gives definition to cleavage. What can I say, I'm visual.

 

[ChainedUp]

Unscheduled day off yesterday. Got to do that every once in awhile.

Happy Friday everyone.

i am the king of first impression snap judgements. It's a huge blind spot for me but it's just how I roll. What blindspots do you have that you choose to live with?

 

[Endless_Night]

Papa C!!!

I was afraid you'd been captured on one of your super-secret sojourns! Now we don't have to mount a rescue mission.

Back later to answer. I'm flailing on this question for some reason.

 

[NorthRockJohnson]

Unscheduled day off yesterday. Got to do that every once in awhile.

Happy Friday everyone.

i am the king of first impression snap judgements. It's a huge blind spot for me but it's just how I roll. What blindspots do you have that you choose to live with?

Lately it's all Trump related. If they like Trump we're just straight up not going to get along.

 

[DarkSimian]

Lately it's all Trump related. If they like Trump we're just straight up not going to get along.

I'm the opposite; I'm not a super fan of Trump, but if you're a liberal.....just keep on walking.

 

[Endless_Night]

I'm still not sure if this is the best answer, but I'll go for, ta da -

The Morally Judgmental.

I tend to write them off. To my detriment, no doubt, as the sum of a person is not made up of one part. To paraphrase, badly, a little Aristotle.

 

[Suz_anne]

*accidental double post* #noideahowimanagedthat

 

[Suz_anne]

*keeps on walking*


It makes me profoundly sad to read that type of sentiment.

The lack of willingness to talk and understand opposing viewpoints is what distresses me the most about the tone and tenor of our country right now.

Too many people on both sides think shouting the other side down is the only way to "win".

(This is not directed at DS or NRJ, btw.)

 

[Endless_Night]

Lately it's all Trump related. If they like Trump we're just straight up not going to get along.

I'm the opposite; I'm not a super fan of Trump, but if you're a liberal.....just keep on walking.

LOL! I am in the middle! Extreme left OR extreme right and my brain just shuts right off.

 

[MedicalMuse]

LOL! I am in the middle! Extreme left OR extreme right and my brain just shuts right off.

This. And constant complaining. If I have to hear the words "I hate" at all, we may have a problem. Lately there's a lot of hate. It's so very sad.

 

[MessierObject]

I think it is natural to have "blind spots." It was an evolutionary survival trait to make snap judgements as to whether "they" are one of you or not, a threat or an ally in the wilds of early man.
However, in modern society these snap judgements unacknowledged or unchecked create distance and borders between us.
I know I make snap judgements, but I almost always challenge them. I give every one the same opportunity to gain or lose my interest, respect, friendship, etc. If you are different from me or my point of view that's an awesome opportunity for me to learn. Every encounter is an opportunity, and I try to give all opportunities a chance. It's been very freeing and educational for me.

 

[SweetCupcake]

Unscheduled day off yesterday. Got to do that every once in awhile.

Happy Friday everyone.

i am the king of first impression snap judgements. It's a huge blind spot for me but it's just how I roll. What blindspots do you have that you choose to live with?

I sometimes ignore obvious dangerous situations -- naiveté, inexperience, but my motivation is a wish to help. Like when I tried to stop a street brawl in Chicago. Oops. I don't have a good nose for danger and it is a blindspot I don't seem to fix.

 

[Mindfondler]

I think it is natural to have "blind spots." It was an evolutionary survival trait to make snap judgements as to whether "they" are one of you or not, a threat or an ally in the wilds of early man.
However, in modern society these snap judgements unacknowledged or unchecked create distance and borders between us.

I found myself nodding in agreement with this. The big turn-off for me about the way that politics is conducted is that it's essentially tribal: supporters tend to identify with one party and oppose others on a vitriolic personal level (ad hominem attacks are the norm). Regularly, any questioning voice is summarily dismissed solely on the basis that it must be "one of them" (i.e. the other tribe), rather than given any serious consideration.

As MessierObject says, this tribalism is a relic of an evolutionary survival instinct, but it's not helpful in encouraging a rational exchange of views. Indeed, I've given up trying to have reasoned debate with fanatical supporters even from my largely apolitical, open-minded and curious perspective.
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[Trekka]

i am the king of first impression snap judgements. It's a huge blind spot for me but it's just how I roll. What blindspots do you have that you choose to live with?

I'm super sensitive. I have a hard time not taking things too personally. I can get so blinded by my own feelings, that I can fail to see what's really going on with the other person.

But I don't choose to live with it. I work on it constantly.

Speaking of taking things personally... EN, ya made me blush ^up there

 

[Paul_Chance]

Executive Summary:

I used to trust people and then get hurt by things they did. Now, I trust, I just do so without expectation.

Paul's Longer Answer and Sleep Tonic:

I couldn't care less about a person's politics. I assume you have a reason for believing what you believe – whether it's basic tribalism all the way through careful intellectually and ethically derived positions. I think the game of politics is as old as mankind so I am rather dispassionate about it. Vote your conscience, and try to be a good human being, however you define it.

As for a blind spot I've been thinking about that for a while. For the last 20 years or so I've lived an observed life. I've spent a lot of time meditating on what I do and why I do it, and coupled that with time in counseling. I'm assuming a blind spot is a place from which you were blindsided - where an event or an incident or emotion came up on you unexpectedly.

When I was younger I was periodically blindsided from trusting people and then having them take actions that hurt me. In zen there is a proverb that says trusting no one, never weep when you are betrayed. I guess I move through the world with as few expectations as I can. No one escapes their karma. I cannot change or work off someone else's karma. Only my own. I trust people to do what they think is right or necessary, not what I think they should do.

 

[Hornblende]

I'm the opposite; I'm not a super fan of Trump, but if you're a liberal.....just keep on walking.

I'm really disappointed to read this.