To my lovely writing partners, please bear with my slow responses! I just got engaged and now I'm headed across the Atlantic for a couple weeks. I promise I haven't forgotten you!
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7 yrs ago
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. -Joseph Campbell
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7 yrs ago
I disagree. Your personal preference for one writer over another, does not change the fact that both may be good at what they do. Skill is not subjective.
7 yrs ago
Perhaps the answer is some conglomeration: A good writer is someone who can artfully combine proficient use of the English language with ideas that make the reader think or feel.
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I think I was probably a cat in another lifetime. I don't like noise, I don't like bright lights, and I don't even particularly like people, though there are one or two exceptions to that last one. What I do like are warm places, good books, hot drinks, and pleasant conundrums, you know the sort that might occupy a longish drive with interesting thinking. Antepenultimately, I enjoy words of a sesquipedalian nature, though only as a veridical aesthete; I donβt think these words have much of a place in the writing Iβll be doing on this forum. They mess with the flow of the prose if you catch my meaning. Supereminently, Iβll write with anyone that has a strong voice and a good grasp of the English language, and while I won't promise not to bite, I will swear I've had all my shots, so pm me if you've got any clever ideas or inchoate notions.
I'll post as soon as I get good wifi and a free hour. I am in fact in Switzerland for a music course and it's fairly intense so I've been exhausted every night when I finally get back to my hotel.
Will do! I'm gearing up to cross the Atlantic for a couple weeks, but I'll get a post up before I go and hopefully another one or two while I'm there once we get there.
I think I was probably a cat in another lifetime. I don't like noise, I don't like bright lights, and I don't even particularly like people, though there are one or two exceptions to that last one. What I do like are warm places, good books, hot drinks, and pleasant conundrums, you know the sort that might occupy a longish drive with interesting thinking. Antepenultimately, I enjoy words of a sesquipedalian nature, though only as a veridical aesthete; I donβt think these words have much of a place in the writing Iβll be doing on this forum. They mess with the flow of the prose if you catch my meaning. Supereminently, Iβll write with anyone that has a strong voice and a good grasp of the English language, and while I won't promise not to bite, I will swear I've had all my shots, so pm me if you've got any clever ideas or inchoate notions.
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I think I was probably a cat in another lifetime. I don't like noise, I don't like bright lights, and I don't even particularly like people, though there are one or two exceptions to that last one. What I do like are warm places, good books, hot drinks, and pleasant conundrums, you know the sort that might occupy a longish drive with interesting thinking. Antepenultimately, I enjoy words of a sesquipedalian nature, though only as a veridical aesthete; I donβt think these words have much of a place in the writing Iβll be doing on this forum. They mess with the flow of the prose if you catch my meaning. Supereminently, Iβll write with anyone that has a strong voice and a good grasp of the English language, and while I won't promise not to bite, I will swear I've had all my shots, so pm me if you've got any clever ideas or inchoate notions.</div>