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Re:What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Lan... by itronitron on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:12AM (#24098346)
Anyone that creates and that cares how their work will be received by others should volunteer as judges in competitions until they realize fully how subjective and biased the judging committees are.

Since Burrows already had some experience running against the establishment (his university administration) I expect that he was not particularly fazed by the negative review.

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Re:What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Lan... by leib on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:34AM (#24098642)
If you can't do, judge.

I suspect some of these people are bad faith in their criticisms simply because they're bitter their own work didn't take off.

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Re:What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Lan... by bitwize on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:20AM (#24099441)
"But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so." --Anton Ego, Ratatouille
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