Re: Critique rules

On Jan 16, 1:29 am, Tina_H...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:
ShellyS <shell...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina_H...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:
ShellyS <shell...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


(snip)


While I'm no wiser about how to write better. (As opposed to
a regular here still claiming that you get better when you
write more; that's a lie.)
I don't know. It's worked for me. Practice usually helps you
improve.

It hasn't worked for me. And how could I improve, without
knowing how to do it better? I only know the way I do write. The
same words (growing less, if anything), the same ways to arrange
them...

I believe it has something to do with training your brain. I was
wobbly when I first learned to ride a bike but the more I did it, the
better I got. I was a slow typist who made a lot of errors, but the
more I typed, the faster and better I got. The more I wrote, the
easier it became for me to finish a story and build characters and
after writing in simple sentences, practice helped my find other ways
because I'd already managed to succeed with simple sentences, success
being measured in completion of the story. And the more I write, the
easier it gets for me to catch things and judge it without the
paranoia of the inner weasel.

(snip)

It's someone demanding that you do something utterly loony,
with no idea what he's talking about, and then someone else
saying it's rude to object to that.

Huh? Are they showing up at your door and waving something in
your face?

The usenet equivalent to that.

That makes no sense to me. You can choose to ignore something in
cyberspace, on usenet. You can't easily ignore someone waving a hand
in your face. Escape in the tangible world is not as easy as clicking
away. I really believe people convince themselves that they don't have
an easy out online, but they do.

Are they threatening you until you comply?

The equivalent ("throw the book at the wall if <that> stays",
without anyone ever asking him to read it, at that).

And you're being forced to read these comments?

If you think it's loony, ignore them.

I do that now. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, and the
person is still around, plus there was also the person who said
it's rude to object to it.


Some lessons need to be learned the hard way. I get insulted enough
times online, I learn to ignore the person doing the insulting. Or
whatever it is that bothers me. And I'm stronger for it, painful
though the lessons might have been. But I don't hold it against the
people who annoyed me that way. I was complicit by debating with them
and giving them more reason to keep answering me.

It's just a newsgroup.

And the newsgroup is where I speak about it.


To me, that's like visiting people and insulting them, even if you're
not naming names. It's uncomfortable for me to read it. I might need
to start ignoring it.

(snip)

-- Shelly
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