The Official Praise Thread

[DaemianLucifer]

Like I said, I did nothing special.

I contested the result and they explained to me: I did not understand the idea of the requierment (it was about "image"; just like that, no other specifications; so I treated self-image, image in arts and stuff like that; apparently they did not understand it the same way); they found something wrong with the structure (they actually gave me a quasi-mathematcial formula for how it should have been; hello! this is writing, not maths!); I had some ortography mistakes (damned accents) which I admitted. Bah, whatever. I don't care anymore.

Oh,how I simply love critics.Honestly,Im going to write some crap simply out of boredom,and some 300 years later theyll be saying something like:"He was thinking about the true meaning of life while writing this.And look at this here.It clearly says that it was the most exciting day of his life!"And if some student dares to say "I think he was just bored",hell get an F

[Derek]

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Wow, I doubt critics are that stupid. And besides, if you wrote a bunch of crap I don't think anyone would want to read it.

Sorry about all that LuckyD, better luck next time I guess.

[DaemianLucifer]

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Wow, I doubt critics are that stupid. And besides, if you wrote a bunch of crap I don't think anyone would want to read it.

Sorry about all that LuckyD, better luck next time I guess.

Actually they are.There are countles examples of them changing their minds,going against the public,etc.Besides,how can they know what the writer meant?Are they mind readers?Mediums?

And I can write pretty good sometimes.The only problem is that if I dont write the idea the instant I get it,later I am simply to lazy to do it,until it disappears

[Kalah]

And I can write pretty good sometimes.

That should be: "pretty well..."

[DaemianLucifer]

And I can write pretty good sometimes.

That should be: "pretty well..."

Ok,let me correct myself:I can write pretty well in my mother tongue.Better?

[Gaidal Cain]

Besides, spelling and grammar isn't necessary for being able to write a good story. They help in keeping the reader's interest (because if they're bad, reading it will become harder), but there's things as spell-checkers and proofreaders for someone who has trouble with it.

[Kalah]

I'm just teasing him..

[DaemianLucifer]

I'm just teasing him..

Oh thank god for that!I was really worried you were serrious!

[Derek]

And I can write pretty good sometimes.

That should be: "pretty well..."

@DaemianLucifer
No they are not mind readers, but opinions may be expressed by the critic so that they might offer an explanation of the author's work. Interpretations are just that, there is no exact answer to what certain stories mean. A multifaceted story such as Slaughterhouse V may be looked at on many levels from many perspectives. A goo critic would not claim that their view is the only one. They are giving one particular view on the subject and it is up to the reader to decide if they agree with that manner of interpretation.

@Gaidal Cain
I have yet to read a good story that has poor writing and grammar, and I doubt anyone with poor writing/grammar is going to be taken seriously in a literary sense. By that I also mean I doubt anyone is going to try and publish a story with terrible writing/grammer in it.

[Gaidal Cain]

I have yet to read a good story that has poor writing and grammar, and I doubt anyone with poor writing/grammar is going to be taken seriously in a literary sense. By that I also mean I doubt anyone is going to try and publish a story with terrible writing/grammer in it.

Of course, any quality story is likely to have those things in the finished packaging. But being able to spell well and always use the proper grammer is not a necessity for a good writer. The occasional mistake can be forgiven.

[ThunderTitan]

Please, if writers had perfect grammer then they wouldn't need people to proofread the manuscripts.

[Derek]

I have yet to read a good story that has poor writing and grammar, and I doubt anyone with poor writing/grammar is going to be taken seriously in a literary sense. By that I also mean I doubt anyone is going to try and publish a story with terrible writing/grammer in it.

Of course, any quality story is likely to have those things in the finished packaging. But being able to spell well and always use the proper grammer is not a necessity for a good writer. The occasional mistake can be forgiven.

How do you figure that it is not necessity?

[Corribus]

Of course, any quality story is likely to have those things in the finished packaging. But being able to spell well and always use the proper grammer is not a necessity for a good writer. The occasional mistake can be forgiven.

There's more to good writing than good grammar. I've seen many examples of writing that were grammatically sound but which were virtually unreadable. Being able to craft a paragraph and express an idea or argument in a logical fashion often has little to do with the actual mechanical process of writing, but it is just as important, if not more so.

But this all has little to do with the thread topic in any case.

[theLuckyDragon]

Ok, but let's congratulate Orfinn for becoming the second creature capable of sex-change in the series! (read: on-topic!)

@Derek: thanks but there won't be a next time; these are school olympics only and I'm finishing highschool this year; actually... in a little more than a month... yikes!

[Orfinn]

Ok, but let's congratulate Orfinn for becoming the second creature capable of sex-change in the series! (read: on-topic!)

What a heck are you babbling about?

[theLuckyDragon]

You're a Rakshasa. Good thing I didn't have to say than in Romanian, 'cause I would have had to use a gender-specific indefinite article.

[Gaidal Cain]

How do you figure that it is not necessity?

Well, spelling can be taken care for to a large part by a spell checker, and if someone has problem with the grammar, there are proofreaders. Even so, even if there's a few mistakes, they can be ignored by the reader if they aren't to many. I don't say they don't matter at all, but that they don't have to be flawless.

[theLuckyDragon]

Congrats to our new lord and master! Orfinn the Pit Lord deserves some cheese cake!

www (dot) glendasattic.com/r2/des/classic%20cheese%20cake's.jpg
(does not work with the URL tags; guess it's because of the %s and 's)

[Orfinn]

Oh thanks anyway tLD, I can always eat the numbers and letters

[DaemianLucifer]

Congratulations to Infiltrator for 200!So,can I post some cheese?