Muzman on 12/1/2009 at 01:10

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The Twilight thing is because, while I haven't seen it and don't plan to, his description of the main character fits every press bio of Bella Swan I've ever seen (minus domestic violence and urge to die). The dialogue too seems roughly at the same degree of awkward-clever high school romance.
Given the high minded goals of these things it's often effective to point out "this is roughly the level you appear to be at (minus romantic vampire bollox), is that where you want to be?". It may well be, who knows.
Bit surprised no one complained about Sliding Doors. The only connection there is competing what-if? scenarios.

Also Heathers, while this can't really be measured, I'd bet it did more to reduce teen suicide than a million after school special type stories.

Muzman on 12/1/2009 at 01:26

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One of your planes just hit you in the face dude.

Stitch on 12/1/2009 at 05:14

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Wait, the main protagonist in the Twilight vampire series is named Bella Swan?

That's ridiculously awesome. I take it she hangs out with best friends Siouxsie Lestat and Velvet Von Nightfall?

june gloom on 12/1/2009 at 06:44

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way funnier than it has any right to be

Queue on 13/1/2009 at 14:30

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At what time did I ever point out a spelling error? I'm appalled by the content, and the idea.



Okay, the first rule to writing well is it to actually understand analogy. If one can't see the metaphor, then one shouldn't even attempt to write (even if it's just for fun).

I don't mean to be a prick here, and don't take this too personally, but you are what is destroying the idea of literature. And by saying "you", it's not "you" as a physical-being. I'm making an analogy toward the attitude:


This statement leads me to question: why? What are you doing then? You see, here is the problem. Too many people out there are doing what they consider to be writing without ever once trying to understand exactly how to write, or the reason to write. Writing is the ultimate form of expression in that it is a direct connection to the writer's inner thoughts. Writing happens when one poises a question and tries to, through story, find an answer. It is the by-product of the writer's thought process and imagination, thus yeilding some sort of truth in the end.

Now, there is nothing wrong with you are doing. Everyone learns to write better by starting with an idea and then making mistakes, understanding the mistakes, and learning from the mistakes; but you keep those mistakes to yourself until you improve. Yet, you admit freely that you have no desire to improve, no desire to make something better (you'll leave that up to other people), thus excluding you from ever contributing something of value in the grander sense of literature. Instead, you rush off and post your resulting screenplay without having studied how to write a screenplay (you simply downloaded the software), or learning how to write for that matter.

Now here is what happens when one does this, it perpetuates bad writing (giving us novels/films like Twilight). You see, other people will read it and think to themselves, "Hey, I can do that, too." And they will. Eventually, the markets becomes flooded with one horrid piece after another of either bad prose or bad content. If you don't believe me then go to one of those many websites that allow the teenie-boopers to "publish" their poetry by posting it themselves: it's all one "I'm-so-love-sick-I-want-to-die-because-I-need-to-live-through-somebody-else" piece of shit after another. They all say the same thing, and are as equally poor in execution. Why? Because little Susie reads what little Betty Sue wrote and thinks that it's brilliant, and that this is what she should write, and how she should write, too.

Now think of this, if you have all of these people being steeped in one piece of bad writing after another--what happens? Soon, all of the old editors and publishers will be gone, replaced by new editors/publishers familiar only with the awfulness in which they have been exposed, or that they themselves write. Don't you think that it's possible the quality may go down just a bit?

I don't know about you, but I worry about that.

Instead, we continue to find the good in what everyone writes, no longer critiquing honestly by screaming, "This is bad, please, please, please stop."

So you see, it's nothing against you--it's the process.

...I have to call you out on "punctuational", though. That's not even a word!