Comments on: The Meltdown Heard ‘Round the World

By: A Suitable Tale of Woe | Preposterous Pretentious Prattle

A Suitable Tale of Woe | Preposterous Pretentious Prattle — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:03:34 +0000

[...] do not fancy myself a writer. I am (term shamelessly cribbed from Big Bear) a writing enthusiast. I’m not the next Tolkien, nor can I aspire to the heights reached by [...]

By: stubborn

stubborn — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:30:22 +0000

Dear BBB,

One of the old “fill in the blank” adages goes “Good writers borrow. Great writers steal” (or DMs, or teachers, or… you get the point) So to prove DEFINITIVELY that I’m a great writer (and no one hat better say otherwise – (see the joke there?)), let me make a point about your bearwalls by stealing another’s line. I know I first read it in the Coda at the end of the anniversary copy of Fahrenheit 451 (speaking of flame wars), but I believe Mr. Bradbury was quoting others.

So, to get to my own point: “Digression is the soul of wit.”

Digress, sir, and never question it (though any sane person would, of course).

Sincerely,
Stubborn

By: Perdissa

Perdissa — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:50:30 +0000

Thanks for the link to the train wreck! It completely made my otherwise lousy day.

I even went to look at the Amazon reviews (always good for a laugh). It appears that the single non-sarcastic review of the book came from the author’s sister. It was so funny, I felt a little sad.

By: Mannyac

Mannyac — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:06:39 +0000

Want really feakin’ funny?

Author’s response on 3/28 @ 9:37

And I quote:

“As to annoymous

Al was given the option of a free copy from smashwords the following day to download in any format he preffered.”

Anyone else think Al had a valid point?

By: Beerbear

Beerbear — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:39:19 +0000

I read the first paragraph of the description and was like “oooookay… I’m so NOT going to read this book.” Seriously… look at the plot. Regular seaman takes his wife on cargoship? Fact checking? ZERO. Of course, the chick is a “modern author”.

This, however, is my favorite part: “She carried her stocky build carefully back down the stairs.” What is that character? A horse?

The girl sounds like a former RPer, who wrote those lengthy, horribly annoying posts, which go to such great length and detail, that half way any normal RPer will either fall asleep or say “fuck it” and leave (I know such people, they annoy me, I hate those “wall of text hits you for 3,000 critical damage, you are dead” posts), had some friends in her RP clique who said those were great (it’s one of the issues I have with RPing these days, it’s like bloody high school all over again with all the cliques), then she started to self publish.

Also love how she goes postal “Fuck off!” Very professional.

Now, where is the mailman with my copy of “1Q84″. Murakami, now that is a writer. She could learn one or two… thousand things from him.

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:59:39 +0000

The D-K paper is quite interesting – especially for me, originally being from a different culture (Germany) and migrated to NC when I was ~30. I always wondered how people here (in the US) could exaggerate their resumes nearly to the point of lying, and instead of getting fired, get promoted to management positions.

BBB, don’t fall for logic traps. Things that work in one direction don’t always work in the other ;)

“Every Lady is a woman, but not every woman is a Lady”…

By: Clapus

Clapus — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:29:09 +0000

Once she replied to the bad review she became troll bait. It was actually kind of funny until the trolls started carrying on among themselves. One thing for sure about us trolls our opinion is by far the wisest and most highly regarded on the whole Internets!
I read what I like. I like what I read here. Thanks and keep writing.

By: Jod

Jod — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:43:18 +0000

This Train Wreck you linked is certainly that but to those of us who are jaded by the communities we interact with ourselves (such as say some of the Travel Industry for me or the Official WoW Forum Community) it is a bit of a bleak reminder that there are alot of people put there who are only there to berate or belittle others. From what I can see the blog was well written, and while the Authors response was bad, the response from the general community was incredibly terrible, which is a little disheartening.

If this makes you wonder about what people are thinking of your writing though .. I would think that here at the BBB you’d know after all this time that people coming here like what they see .. otherwise they wouldn’t have been returning after how many years? The way you write has its own rythm and flow, which I like, others may not but hey that happens, and as long as you enjoy doing it I say keep doing it.

By: Fleabag

Fleabag — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:10:45 +0000

I have heard this before and find it quite amusing, but I think it may have more to do with cultural norms than anything else. Our culture despises below average people despite the obvious that half of us will always be there! So people who know they suck just don’t want to admit it and those that know they do not are not sure by how much and are not bothered about it. I always assume I suck because I have a bus pass from the grave yard!

By: Mhorgrim

Mhorgrim — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:15:01 +0000

Hmm…Good bad or Mediorce BB, you are without a doubt far more entertaining than I lol. Anyways, what I enjoyed about this particular Bear Wall was that you tied something from the outside to the inside and made your readers (to include myself up front) THINK! Now that is writing.