Now onto page 263, where the drama unfolds...
I was implying that while you may have spent a long time on your entries, they weren't very good.
Not to drag it up again but lololol that's technically more insulting to me than it is to Klaus, because...
that's why I force him to write my entries
Yeah. I'm doing the actual writing of Klaus' entries. I'll take the opportunity to inform you that this is NOT a game and more of a multi-collaborative process in which I'm merely a co-ordinator. More detail on the exact nature of the writing process to follow.
We must all recognize that we are fairly amateur (unless someone here is a professional writer) and none of us can expect to be great.
This requires a few premises, most of which are dodgy:
1) You believe you are either the best writer in the thread or are somehow the most qualified to make an assessment on everybody's writing skills.
2) You believe there's an objectively superior sense of humour in writing or else that everybody should hold have the same tastes in writing.
I criticise this argument primarily for the purpose of forwarding what I believe the scope of judgements on good writing should be: form and structure. Tastes differ and this tournament specifically promotes the (multimedia) individual expression of self. One is entitled to hold an opinion on whether an entry is good or not but keep in mind that I don't give a rat's a** for the purposes of the WoM: the majority of the content will eventually become a series of in-jokes that select groups will get and the rest probably won't, and I'm here to make the most of what everybody has to offer.
In future, to avoid overstepping the mark, I would suggest sticking to "I liked" or "I didn't like" as opposed to "This is good" and "This is bad". As one person, you certainly don't speak for everybody here, Xzeno. Nobody does.
On a personal note, I'm not a writer by profession but I am published (nothing hugely major mind you) across a range of genres AND forms of content, both prose and music. Anyway, I do keep practiced: I write an opinion piece on the current news almost daily. And the novel is now undergoing its second revision. I note NaNoWriMo 09 is coming up... and it is tempting... but my first priority is to the WoM. Which is a pity, because after 2 years of on-and-off, I'm finally confident that my plot and characters are now convincing.
In short, I'm not going to be modest. I decided to give this project a burl because I was sure I could do it because I think I'm a good writer (and by "writer" in this case, I mean "can craft a big story", but I also mean in the other senses.) There. I said it. I think I'm a good writer, but that doesn't mean everybody's going to get what I wrote with Klaus. By the sudden jump in inappropriateness in my writing between that and my main storylines, it should be obvious that's more a "just between the two of us this makes me rofl" thing, because I know him and he knows me and together we're like an avalanche.
