To: Cringing Negativism Network
No, I think it will encourage semi-literate, Hallmarkesque mush, and wannabe hipster bilge. Just yesterday I got a note from the son of a friend - out of the blue - asking me to evaluate “a novel in progress” and two short stories that he had been working on for a year and a half. The “novel” was two pages, the stories one page each. How clueless/delusional can someone be?
We are hurtling into a Dark Age.
49 posted on
08/05/2013 10:23:02 PM PDT by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
I hope I never see a novel written like a text in shorthand
58 posted on
08/05/2013 10:30:57 PM PDT by
GeronL
To: kabumpo
No, I think it will encourage semi-literate, Hallmarkesque mush, and wannabe hipster bilge. Just yesterday I got a note from the son of a friend - out of the blue - asking me to evaluate “a novel in progress” and two short stories that he had been working on for a year and a half. The “novel” was two pages, the stories one page each. How clueless/delusional can someone be?
We are hurtling into a Dark Age. Here's one for you: 500-word short story. Go.
Yes, this is an actual category, as is the 250-word short-story — the latter is surprisingly hard to do well.
59 posted on
08/05/2013 10:31:34 PM PDT by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: kabumpo
We are hurtling into a Dark Age.You mean "hurling," didn't you?
157 posted on
08/06/2013 9:05:48 AM PDT by
John123
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