Re: I made the papers :)

On 14 Mar, 19:47, "Col" <reddwarf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Zarok" <hauntedri...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I'm a better writer than Mickle, if that's what you mean, though
infinitely less prolific. Besides, I'm uncomfortable even calling
Mickle a writer. He's a hack. He churns out poorly-written fare which
is ideas-driven i.e. giant bugs taking over Edinburgh.

What the hell drives *any* fictional story other than *ideas*, ultimately?


Style, content, vision, meaning, relevance, empathy, imagery....to
name but half a dozen.


Franz Kafka wrote about a man who metamorphosed into an insect but it
was original, metaphorical and poetic. In contrast I don't mind
betting that Mickle's story will be a boys' own variation on John
Wyndham written in the style of Mickey Spillane, with bugs swarming
into shopping precincts and sucking people's faces off.

So you deride his skills as a writer yet you admit you haven't
actually read the story the newspaper article was talking about?


No one has, Col. It hasn't been published yet.

I don't begrudge Mickle his nanosecond of mediocre acclaim, but let's
try to keep this thing in perspective, shall we?

Why so bitter and mean-spirited?
Surely as a writer yourself, and indeed in the same general genre you
should be congratulatiing someone on their sucess rather than making
snide remarks. Everyone else has managed to do that, so why not
you, jealousy?


I object strongly to the comment that I am in the 'same general genre'
as Mickle. You clearly don't know what you are talking about. He
writes about...well, giant bugs taking over Edinburgh city centre, I
write about existential crisis and psychological trauma.

Look, if someone had posted a link to a Jeffrey Archer article
discussing his work, I would have been just as critical of JA as an
author. Just because Mickle occasionally posts here it does not mean
that we have to suspend our critical faculties.

The Edinburgh Bugle (or whatever it was) is still only the Edinburgh
Bugle; Mickle is still only a Mickey Spillane hack; and a story about
gigantic bugs is still only a story about gigantis bugs. Wyndham did
it better, Kafka did it different, and it isn't heresy to say so.

And you wonder why you are unpopular!


I've *always* been unpopular with certain types of people (usually
bullies and braggarts). However, lest you lose any sleep over the
matter, rest assured that in real life I get on very well with most
other people and have a large circle of friends (which is why I don't
need to curry favour with the loudmouths in this group, who in
contrast would appear to lead lonely lives elsewhere).

Think about it. I don't *need* any of you to like me. And who would
seriously want to be liked by a group of identity-hiding malcontents
who spend half their lives arguing about any old crap when they aren't
busy pretending not be baldy middle aged men? Besides, this group has
a subscription base of several hundred, so what you really mean is
that a very small vocal few don't like me. And who can blame them?
They liked me well enough until I started disagreeing with them and
cutting them down to size.

You seem to overestimate the importance of this issue and indeed your
collective presence in UMTM. If you, Spudface, Hopeless et al (approx
ten people all told) were to fall off the edge of the earth and
disappear tomorrow, I am quite sure that UMTM would effortlessly
recover, and emerge a cleaner, more focused group.

This thread like every other thread is little more than an angry
scribble in the sand, and will soon be washed away by the next tide
(unfortunately it's also the nearest that the layman will ever get to
writing, hence the impotent fury).










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