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First off apologies for the glacially slow response — in between camping and prepping for uni¹ ² I haven’t had a hot minute to respond, much less write anything.
Anyway…
This is why — despite all appearances, and indeed *protests *— you’re a decent guy Angel. You took the time to respond to a half-drunk offhand response with a measured and thoughtful one of your own. Okay, maybe decent isn’t the right word (you can stop giving me the evils now) but definitely at least…engaging. :D
my ideas may be wrong but that doesn’t mean I’m ‘wrong’Damn right. That separation is very important, and one I’m still learning. I’m young, I suppose.³
Just a wrong’un ; DDamn right-*er. *;D
there are plenty of other people writing far better worded things than I do, so I leave it to themPerhaps I should do the same, since I’m never close to happy with my own sincere work. I’m often much happier with my more poetic or insincere ventures. Hmm.
In all likelihood it’ll be business as usual, with overly sincere and dramatic musings interspersed with the aforementioned. Who knows! Not me, that’s for sure.
which would explain a great deal of my output, don’t you think? Yeah but… latent sadistic streak and poor impulse controlMe too
But I keep plugging away at it on the basis that, just occasionally, I unearth a gem that was worth the digging.If this ain’t a mood I don’t know what is. That’s what the kids say these days isn’t it?⁴
Anyway…all of that was similar to my musing above, but better worded. Ironic, really.
I’ll just pull out one bit here…
all still a work in progress that I suspect will never end because I’ll never master itThat’s…Life, ain’t it?
Only in death does progress end, or something like that?⁵
Write in your own voice, not what you think (others think) it ought to be.Well said, says I!
Douglas Adams and Terry PratchettSame here, and proudly so.⁶
As for the rest of those names, I clearly need an education. That previous reading list you gave me is carefully saved…to my Medium reading list, appropriately enough. I’m more than likely to read things from that list rather than my university set texts…
hence the italics for emphasisSomething I’ve wantonly stol..adopted. What was it you said once? Theft is the best form of flattery?
which I‘m told is fairly unique … so, all’s well that ends badly after all, eh?Quite so. I’m told my writing is unique — but most echo my school English teacher in inflecting that as a negative.
If you’re stuck for an idea, try writing something in someone else’s voiceOoh now that’s interesting. I must try that…but more than likely it’ll just get stuck in draft hell with my other dreck.
I also tend to go a bit meta/recursive/self-referential too ² …Just a bit.
Oh … and a bit pseudo-wannabe Zen as well — C.f. the above post.As in *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, *as in what I’m reading at the minute? Or am I dead wrong?
Alternatively, you could read stuff by people who know what they’re doing and can actually write ; DExcellent, another reading list!⁹ Except this time I know many of the names already :D I shall peruse the others whenever I get a damn minute to myself…
¹ Not at the same time
² Decided on Philosophy in the end, although I may well still switch to Psychology if I get the chance.
³ Maybe not any more…twenty next week.⁴
⁴ Am old. Help!
⁵ Never thought I’d twist a WH40k quote into something positive-ish…
⁶ GNU STP⁷
⁷ Yes, I do that every time his name is mentioned. I’ll be damned if I don’t do my part to keep him alive in the Clacks.⁸
⁸ Poor bastard’s probably screaming ‘Just let me fucking die already’ by now…
⁹ In case that ended up coming off sarcastic, as I often feel I do, know that I meant it sincerely!