Love how this is equal parts self-therapeutic manifesto and called-for stern scolding (objectively balanced, as all things should be).
This is some very sound advice for… other writers, writers that are not me. Please find a way to educate the unwashed masses without making my nostrils splatter my desk with maté next time, thank you.
Seven? Just seven? I could mold 49 of these fuckers from my own excrement, and you can be sure I've committed every one of them.
Here's two more:
1) Presuming to share your opinion on the internet. Fuck you, man.
2) Being boring while you're at it, which I suppose is what most of these boil down to. If you're incapable of aping your inspirations, at least mock that which you hate.
Lovely stuff, probably hit a fair few of these back in the day lol. One that annoys me is rant-reviews that don't actually discuss the album but are just an extended personal gripe piece. At that point just write a article, I wanna know why this specific album sucks, not just that you hate the band on principle. The whole ironically detached voice writing style irks me to a certain degree, investment in what you're talking about is important and failure to convey that just comes across smarmy and critical for the sake of being critical. Easy way for me to click off a piece of writing.
Oh another one - something is either the greatest/best ever or the worst ever - the vast majority of stuff falls in the middle. I think a lot of new writers seem to believe being passionate about something automatically makes their extremely positive or negative opinions interesting.
Having built a personality around committing all seven of these in every piece I’ve ever written, I’m going to respectfully disagree
Love how this is equal parts self-therapeutic manifesto and called-for stern scolding (objectively balanced, as all things should be).
This is some very sound advice for… other writers, writers that are not me. Please find a way to educate the unwashed masses without making my nostrils splatter my desk with maté next time, thank you.
Seven? Just seven? I could mold 49 of these fuckers from my own excrement, and you can be sure I've committed every one of them.
Here's two more:
1) Presuming to share your opinion on the internet. Fuck you, man.
2) Being boring while you're at it, which I suppose is what most of these boil down to. If you're incapable of aping your inspirations, at least mock that which you hate.
Guilty!
Lovely stuff, probably hit a fair few of these back in the day lol. One that annoys me is rant-reviews that don't actually discuss the album but are just an extended personal gripe piece. At that point just write a article, I wanna know why this specific album sucks, not just that you hate the band on principle. The whole ironically detached voice writing style irks me to a certain degree, investment in what you're talking about is important and failure to convey that just comes across smarmy and critical for the sake of being critical. Easy way for me to click off a piece of writing.
Oh another one - something is either the greatest/best ever or the worst ever - the vast majority of stuff falls in the middle. I think a lot of new writers seem to believe being passionate about something automatically makes their extremely positive or negative opinions interesting.
Feeling very thankful Im only guilty of one maybe two of these, this is the gatekeeping we crave
This was such an aesthetic read