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Nov. 18th, 2012 08:49 pmSo. writing group. I had hopes. It's amateurs, and I'm the only one remotely "published." most of the group is like, pushing 70 writing memoirs or some kind of political or historical potboiler.
And then there's mr Grammar Man, and a doofus next to me.
I read stuff with an open mind, and even if its not my genre I will find something good to say with the constructive stuff, because that's how I was taught.
These two guys really had to beak off how it was "unoriginal, the punctuation is ATROCIOUS! the vamps aren't scary enough they're not dark and ugly and smelly!!!" I mean these two took umbrage.
( the guy reading mine aloud treated us to a political lecture after the first writer's piece, too. he doth think awful high of himself, for not having heard of the fucking oxford comma.)
At any rate, if he was taking umbrage with the way we format Asher's telepathic dialog, well, cry moar, dude.
The other guy wanted gore and ugly. Write your own.
The younger guy next to me was intrigued, and two of the women were quite "this is gorgeously written, dialog is stellar", so what crawled up the crabby white dude's asses is a mystery.
I will probably toss the critiques from them, and read the rest. But i am questioning this group when it's an apparent crew of "lit/genre snobs." Why is genre work so shit on, anyway?
I was told my stuff was bandwagon unoriginal. Um, what? So? And political racist potboilers are OH SO NEW...
sigh. I'm not hurt, I'm just kind of annoyed at how many men seem to need to school me on proper vampire writing. Back off arsehole. ( when mr grammarian gets in line, I'll be looking for any flaw. Dude. You brought the fight.)
what is the fucking deal with charming memoirs of childhoods in the prairies anyway? Its like alzheimers or write a memoir, you get one or the other.
And then there's mr Grammar Man, and a doofus next to me.
I read stuff with an open mind, and even if its not my genre I will find something good to say with the constructive stuff, because that's how I was taught.
These two guys really had to beak off how it was "unoriginal, the punctuation is ATROCIOUS! the vamps aren't scary enough they're not dark and ugly and smelly!!!" I mean these two took umbrage.
( the guy reading mine aloud treated us to a political lecture after the first writer's piece, too. he doth think awful high of himself, for not having heard of the fucking oxford comma.)
At any rate, if he was taking umbrage with the way we format Asher's telepathic dialog, well, cry moar, dude.
The other guy wanted gore and ugly. Write your own.
The younger guy next to me was intrigued, and two of the women were quite "this is gorgeously written, dialog is stellar", so what crawled up the crabby white dude's asses is a mystery.
I will probably toss the critiques from them, and read the rest. But i am questioning this group when it's an apparent crew of "lit/genre snobs." Why is genre work so shit on, anyway?
I was told my stuff was bandwagon unoriginal. Um, what? So? And political racist potboilers are OH SO NEW...
sigh. I'm not hurt, I'm just kind of annoyed at how many men seem to need to school me on proper vampire writing. Back off arsehole. ( when mr grammarian gets in line, I'll be looking for any flaw. Dude. You brought the fight.)
what is the fucking deal with charming memoirs of childhoods in the prairies anyway? Its like alzheimers or write a memoir, you get one or the other.
