No, I will send you the clips when the microphone arrives.
So, writer guy, let me ask you a question.
Twenty years ago I was involved with a fiction writers group consisting of mostly amateur writers but with a few "pro" writers in the group to act as mentors. They had a standing offer to critique any work you provide for them. I submitted a short story for critique so I could see where I could improve in my writing.
The most senior pro writer ended up doing my critique. He offered nothing more on my writing and story other than to say I was "too writer-y". He did not respond to my further queries and none of the other "pro" writers would do a critique since he had already done one. Can you give any insight into that strange and confusing response? I left the group soon after because the group got weird and less welcoming. They disappeared entirely later that year. What happened? Hmm, I should write a short story about that bizarre time in my life...
they were probably steeling everyones ideas, that or you were a better writer than him so he had no advice to give
they were probably steeling everyones ideas, that or you were a better writer than him so he had no advice to give
I have pondered that very same possibility for years. I can't see that my writing talent overshadowed anyone in the group because there were some very good amateur writers in our club. If they stole our stories as their own, then perhaps someone else found out at that same time and it had nothing to do with my experience. It's been a huge mystery to me all these years. It could have been coincidental that they ended the group over that story and critique, but the timing was truly uncanny.
Can I read it?
It is hard to answer why they reacted that way without knowing what they read.
Can I read it?
It is hard to answer why they reacted that way without knowing what they read.
I would send it your way if I still had the story. It's been lost to time on a failed hard disk during the era of no-good-options-for-long-term-backups. All my other writing work is probably lost as well, but I do have a bunch of old hard drives from that time that I have never bothered to look through. There may still exist something of my work but it would be unlikely the drives will work properly two decades later.
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