I depend on you, my friends.

[derien]

Just before we left for vacation my brother Eightball sent me a link to a sci-fi story posted at some crazy rant site - Mysogi (Purification) - saying it reminded him of me. I finally finished reading it this evening. Not that it's a long story, it's just so goddamn dull and poorly written. I can't think of how to respond to him about it. My first impulse was to say, "I hope I don't write that badly!" Which comes off sounding completely egotistical, but what I mean by it is that I hope that if I do produce something so poor someone will thwack me up side the head and let me know what I need to do to improve. Please??

I'd love to send him something of mine to read in hopes that he could see some... difference, only my stories are probably not the kind of that that would interest him. Perhaps I should, as I have considered, make a cleaned up family version of "Absence of Madeline."

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I wonder what he was on about? Maybe he meant something else about the story reminded him or you, rather than the writing style? But if it was that dreadfully dull, then how very dare he.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Argh, he/she used the word "dusty" twice in one sentence! I can't go on!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know, I have the same problem - I have a hard time continuing to read if someone uses the same word or even a derivation of it twice in a paragraph... even on the same page is hard. ;) (My gosh Lois McMaster Bujold seems to have gotten unconscionably fond of the word 'bemused' in the Sharing Knife books.)