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I'm sorry, this sentence has been patented by manbearpig. It's no longer positive either. It's a sad tale.
Seriously though, well done.
not sure if you're leveling or not, but obv i was using the sentence to pay homage to that terrible incident.
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Originally Posted by Karak
but what about her smile
was ****ing quality and i could go on about it for a couple paragraphs, easy.
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Perhaps you'll be less weird now.
Yeah, that's the hope. I mean I'll still be me, but at least hopefully I can cut some of the most experimental stuff to be appealing to a wider range of people.
One thing I've been thinking about, and would like your thoughts (positive, negative, as long as they're honest) on. I kind of like writing, and think it comes pretty easy to me. After reading some amazing books (classics such as Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath, etc) I came to think that the quality of good writing is so far above my level that it'd be the same as trying to be a pro athlete or orchestra musician.
But then, the last two books I've read, which were both supposed to be bestsellers, were pretty awful. I couldn't make it more than halfway through either. This has me thinking that maybe you don't actually need to be that amazingly talented. I mean I am not trying to write a novel anytime soon, but just based on quality of writing, how easy it is to read, how interesting/clever/witty it is, I think I could do much better than the bestselling **** I was reading. I didn't focus on writing in uni, but I remember I got a top grade in the one that I did (competing a bunch of other people doing it as an elective, so very low threshold). I was thinking I might start writing more as a hobby, and try to set the goal of writing something loosely like
I Was Told There'd Be Cake, which I haven't actually read, but seems like the sort of book about little interesting (mostly girl related) events I could write. Similar formulas.
I don't have the same caliber stories as someone like bond18, but that might kind of help me, something like a lovable loser (lol Cubs). I feel like there are enough Tucker Max types that that niche might already be filled, but I'm not as familiar with any authors out there who can point out their own flops and blunders.
I don't wanna give off the wrong impression - obviously I'm not going to go from unknown to bestselling author in a few months. But I'm trying to decide if it's something I should pursue as a hobby + possible achievement or solely a hobby. I think it's very difficult to be subjective about your own work, so I turn it to y'all. For those who read my TRs...you think there's any potential there?