Righters' Club

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[Oberon]

I was kidding too. At the end of A Farewell to Arms, the love interest dies in childbirth, the baby dies, and the protagonist walks away in the rain.

[retrokitten]

Whoever starts the lists please add me!

[Al Gator]

Add me to the Ping! (Of course I will Pong!)

[Lee'sGhost]

What? You saying I DON'T write like Hemingway?!

Die. Painfully.

[Al Gator]

Whoa, the threads first flame fight! Now its really for real.

[Oberon]

Write like Hemingway? Eh. Why do we need people who write like Hemingway? We have Hemingway.

YOU, on the other hand, write MUCH BETTER than Hemingway.

(How's that for a save?)

[Lee'sGhost]

Well, other than the fact you just insulted the hell out of Hemingway, great!

[JamesP81]

OK, I'll keep track of the ping-list. If you want on the Righter's ping list, let me know.

I'm at work right now, so I don't have time to create the list at the moment, but I'll do it later this evening.

[fr_freak]

Please add me to the ping list as well.

[squarebarb]

"Off at six," she had said. He walked for hours in the rain, searching for her address. It was written on the cinders of his alleged heart. He had lost everything.

He had lost his kitten, his lunch, his marbles, and now he was about to lose her. Her wet lips, her drabjous eyes.

[Oberon]

Hemingway's writing has a particular style, a particular flavor. If I deliberately tried to write something like it, it would be derivative from the very start. Who wants to go there?

Write like yourself. If you want to write differently, be different.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Wise words. Just write. And don't hit the "send" button. Can't forget that one.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Was that your commentary on Hemingway, or a short story written in the drunk style of writing?

[CharlesWayneCT]

And don't apologize for how bad it turned out. Remember that if your audience knew how to write, they wouldn't have asked you to do it for them.

[Lee'sGhost]

Now I need to figure out if I'm not published because I write like me, or because I don't write like me.

Damn.

[Lee'sGhost]

I forget.

[squarebarb]

Yes, but on the other hand, we all need our time of apprenticeship.

If you admire Hemingway it doesn't hurt to end up imitating him for a while.

Look at how much Cormac McCarthy learned from Hemingway. I would say a lot.

We learn from our favorite writers, we don't start out tabula rasa.

[Al Gator]

drabjous?

Seems to me what we have here, is a new freeper legacy word. This is vey series, and hugh!

You now can get your beeber stuned.

[Oberon]

Most people who aren't published are not published because they haven't worked at it all that much.

Which is not to accuse you of laziness, but rather to assure you that persistence pays off.

I decided to become a writer one day in my college dorm, when I tossed aside a paperback sci-fi novel I'd paid good money for at the campus bookstore and thought "This is CRAP!" My next thought was "Heck, if that guy can get published, I'm a shoo-in."

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yes, drabjous. Compelling, but in a completely boring sort of way -- so boring that you are strangely attracted to their boringness.