The Long Road

02/17/2004 Archived Entry: "uh-huh"

A few things bug me about the way I write. Sometimes I'll come up with a few ways of saying something that I think are wonderful and I'll have to choose between them or somehow work both ways into the text without making it seem bloated. A lot of the time, I feel like what I'm trying to say can be done with one or two sentences and its just an incredibly huge chore to make the entry into 200 words. This is also why I seem to find lots of disconnects from one sentence to another. There tends to be not much in the way of "flow". My paragraphs feel very "jumpy", I hardly want to put in the effort to make things smoother. The best though, is when I have just one particular word or turn of phrase that I want to use and I spend hours thinking of and writing around it just so I can have some semblance of a thoughtful entry when really, the point was to have a few words up here that no one else would really appreciate.

I wish I were better at coming up with metaphors though. Everytime I read a particularly good metaphor I think "wow, this writer's good", for no reason other than the comparisons. They're especially usefull for describing how horrific something is. When Ballistic came out, it was like a dream come true; every critic out there seemed to try to top each other in ways to describe the atrocity of that film. When I first started paying attention to Tycho, I thought his entries were fantastic. The man had a fancy comparison for everything. In fact, I think that's what I like most about his writing, the metaphors; there're always a dozen or so colourful ones in every post. But then every once in a while the guy falls so in love with his turn of phrases that I have to read something 2 or 3 times to actually get what he's saying. Is that a failing on his part, or on mine?

I don't think that I'm a superb writer, and certainly not a bad one, somewhere in between sounds about right. There are some people though, it's like they've only ever read one thing in their lives and decided to become writers. This is somewhat forgiveable for webjournals but when it comes to fansites, I have no tolerance for it. Most of these sites are obviously run by a bunch of guys with no training on a volunteer basis but they should at least have some kind of editor who knows what they're doing. I mean, how can you take anyone seriously when they butcher a dead-simple phrase by saying "Enter in Capcom".

Errm...well, I guess that's it. All I REALLY wanted to do was point out that "Enter in Capcom" statement. Au Revoir!

Replies: 1 Comment

enter capcom.

ya, those guys have horrible editing. i have very little respect for anyone's writing on the internet. and less respect for people who don't use proper words on purpose.

how r u? l8r.

fuck off. learn some english

Posted by shawnathan @ 02/21/2004 10:07 PM EST