"Jeff Chapman" <jeffdchapman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:8a5tb.265$sb4.2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi Ursula,
>
> Thanks for the cogent post. Unfortunately though, you've walked into
> Snodgrass community college -- your criticism of the students indicates
your
> missed assumption that you are standing amidst the Ivy League
matriculators.
>
> A year or two ago this newsgroup had interesting things to say about
> e-publi****ng, POD, issues about "fair use" and whatever else happened to
be
> the IP-fray-dujour. Nowadays though most people visit one of the
popular
IP
> or writing websites instead, so most of the hangers on here are... well,
> hangers-on, without much else too add. Those that have an interesting
muse
> are off doing actual /creative writing/, those with a purpose are
> webmastering their own site.
>
> Geesh, in today's get-things-done-now world, who has the time to post
four
> paragraphs to UseNet anyhow?
Your problem is that you are ignorant of Usenet and its
potential for writers. A writer with a bit of talent and
originality has a much better chance of gaining a
reader****p in Usenet than on a website. Of course,
I am talking about people starting from scratch, you
might say, people who are unknowns as writers when
then go on the net. I am not talking about the Steven
Kings who are famous in the print world before they
set up a website. Of course people in that category
will be guaranteed visitors. YOU won't be though.
After all, many thousands of writers have taken your
advice and started websites. Some of them have
had their websites for years and are almost as
obscure as when they created their site. Why? Of
course, it is because there is nothing to attract readers
to their sites. Ironically, they quite often put their pleas
and their lures in the Usenet newsgroups you look down
your nose at, but most people ignore their desperate
pitches, because the site advertisers/writers have
never been a part of the give and take of newsgroup
life. Instead, they are just another amateurish voice
wailing, "For some wonderful writing visit my website
at-------------------." Nobody cares. There are thousands
of writers and wannabes shrieking about the
good writing at their websites. It means nothing.
So, go ahead. Keep writing at your website.
Ignore the potential of Usenet for introducing you
to readers. Stay obscure.
By the way, your "in our get things done now"
comment is one of your more foolish remarks.
I let my thoughts roll right off my mind and into
the net, and those thoughts are almost
immediately read by a large number of
people. How's THAT for "getting things
done now"?
the alt.genius.bill-palmer
--firing posts at passersby at random from a window
in the office upstairs from rec.arts.prose
>
> Best,
> Jeff C.
>
> "Ursula" <Ursula_de_Cologne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:76eb424f.0311101120.349acf0a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > OK, boys and girls, I gotta know this. Notwithstanding that Messieurs
> > Palmer and Harris have covered this at some length, the dearth of
> > feedback beyond a few grunts here and there seems to suggest that most
> > visit these hallowed halls to throw spitballs and play with
> > themselves.
> >
> > I need to know why so many who bother to post in here simply cannot
> > manage more than fifteen/twenty words when they let 'er rip,
> > especially where this is done in response to something that clearly
> > took some effort to prepare. Why do these clever masterminds operate
> > like this? I need an answer to this, for you know who you are. Yes,
> > I'm talking to YOU!
> >
> > Could it be that these Wunderzicklein are so brilliant that they need
> > only eight, or ten words at the most, to pack all that wonderful wit
> > and wisdom into what it is they want to pass on to the rest of us
> > dolts in here? Yes, that has to be it! Some of us are just too
> > dull-witted to grasp all that great wisdom packed into these pithy,
> > one line rejoinders. Anyway, if there's another reason beyond this I'd
> > like someone to share it with me. What am I missing here?
> >
> > And for those of you who ready to say, "Well, it's all **** that's
> > being posted and doesn't deserve a reply," then why not give the rest
> > of a big treat and post something brilliant yourself and see what
> > happens? Why not show us what YOU got - how it's done? How about
> > allowing us to wade into three or four of your own paragraphs? That's
> > what I thought.
> >
> > Note: If you want to criticize my grammar, feel free to do so, but
> > while you're at it address the content. While I'm not a professional
> > writer, the presumption is that many must be floating around this NG.
> > So, under the cir***stances this shouldn't be too much to ask, now
> > should it?
> >
> > Ursula
>
>
|
