Re:Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric...
by dvaun on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @12:50PM
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IMO there has been a growing undercurrent, in online discussions forums, of disdain for writing and authors who aren’t well-established as authority figures or known experts in their field. Tone and word choice is narrowing into a conversational style, and anyone “straying from the pack” sticks out like a sore thumb in online boards.
Anything sarcastic or playful can be perceived as insincere.
I’d be happy to read more of your thoughts—you should keep writing.
Re:Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric...
by hombre_fatal on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:16PM
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You should just leave it at "people like different things" instead of making claims about why people don't like something (especially something that you like).
Because now you invite more negativity (on top of the original negativity and now yours) as people who didn't like their writing may now want to defend themself because they just didn't like the style and aren't part of some "growing undercurrent" who can't appreciate his brilliance because he's not "well-established nor a known expert".
Maybe they just think the writing is overwrought like when you outgrow John Scalzi's lamewad writing after briefly finding it clever in Old Man's War? (I think that's a decent place to end this because Scalzi is a very successful author.)
Re:Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric...
by mannycalavera42 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:20PM
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I find your writing - at least in these 2 comments - amusing and insightful to read. thank you
I’ve heard a number of times that my persona in writing absolutely does not make sense to some people – until they meet me.
I think I can assure you of my non-arrogance. The wry, cynical, even flippant? note is directed at myself. My limitations and recklessness and jumping to conclusions.
If you find me, I offer you a cup of coffee. In return I’d like an equally honest reassessment.
(Full sincerity here!)
edit; Ah. Also. Another thing I can assure you of: Sometimes, afterwards, I come across my own writing and find it awful. in exactly that way. Like an annoying and arrogant 15yo had written it. Which is my greatest fear. To become that 15yo again, the person I certainly was for a decade or so. (Starting at around age 12-ish.) I knew I was annoying but I didn’t know I was arrogant. It turns out the two were related.