Re:Some thoughts on writing
by barry-cotter on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:29PM
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And that's fine. You hate his writing (style) so you don't read it. Others feel differently, enough that he has many, many readers. Clearly there's room for many different styles of writing to find an audience.
> This might be the most boring thing ever written about writing.
> The problem is (imo) that he's writing for himself and not an audience. It reads like a stream-of-consciousness journal entry, not a thoughtful attempt at relaying information to another mind. A good start would be learning to self-edit; the length could be cut significantly with no real loss of content.
> There isn't much more to this article than an author clarifying for himself how he thinks about things. He succeeds at that, sure, and is better off for it, but it's dreary for the rest of us!