Ah, so you don't like writing for the "words" sake? Why, Bob, don't you know it is easier to sell a 600 page novel than a 200 page novel? You have to fill up all those pages somehow <grin>.
BTW, all writers need a good editor, the problem is that the are more would-be-writers editing than even bad editors out there. A classic example from a real experience: Many years ago I found my self with out a typewriter, this is back when computers still cost millions of dollars, and had to write a letter. I wrote it in the modern colloquial style and asked a friend to type it up for me. It came back: " Dear Sir or Madam: Re: Your Letter of the 21st instance. ... " -graywolf Bob W wrote: > Well, there's a lot of bad writing out there, a lot of good writing, > and an awful lot of Good Writing (TM). > > The Good Writing (TM) is the worst of the lot. This is where people > have something interesting to say, can write well enough, but are > trying too hard and the writing gets in the way of the message. > > That's one reason why total control over your own work is not > necessarily a good thing - most writers need an editor to rein them in > a little. The photographic equivalent, to bring things a little closer > to On Topic, is letting W E Smith edit his own work. Look where that > led him. > > -- > Bob > > "I counsel you, sir, always to read through what you have written; > and when you find something that you particularly admire, to strike it > out" --- Dr. Johnson > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Doug Brewer >> Sent: 20 April 2007 04:36 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Blogging soon... >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Except when they happen to be decent writers that are blogging >>> what are >>> essentially articles that might be good enough to actually be >>> published >>> somewhere. >>> >>> Marnie aka Doe :-) >> I know you're being nice, and I thank you (um, if you're talking >> about me...), but I do work hard on my entries, probably harder than > >> I do at making photos. >> >> Look, I know there are a whole bunch of smug blogs, and >> snarky ones, >> just plain bad ones, and all sorts, but if you care to look around, > >> there are some very talented people out there putting out some damn > >> fine work. Many just choose to have total control over their work, >> rather than hand it over to a magazine or whatever. They're >> using the >> power of the Internet to get the audience, same as photographers, >> musicians, designers, any number of vocations. >> >> It just seems quite silly to me to dismiss all blogs as something >> inferior. >> >> Doug Brewer >> http://www.drivingtheflies.com > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
