"Writing itself is too damn hard."

This remains a folkie site and I don't think anybody comes here to find outstanding/talented writers.

No Johnson, no Celements and certainly no Shakespear wouldv'e wasted a line on such silliness as often fills the nonBS section. How long they might spend below the line is something I am afraid to comment on! It is afterall just BS.

Nonetheless, there are some surprises, and they themselves know who they are, but I am not going to ruin a good free read. Eventhough some characters have left the site years ago, there remain several who happened to be also great musicians as well. And great writers/musicians also tend to be great cooks! It gets more interesting as time goes on, because now both bad writers and bad musicians can also be entertaining in a sort of perverted way, and when the two combine, there lies a comedy. But they don't know it, and like the turk who's shirt-tail dangles behind his dress suit at a wedding, the audience is laughing AT not with him/her/them.

Such is fool's lot!

Over several years reading a particular member's postings, I wonder, do they realize that the same effort would have produced a fat book or two? Having gone down that road myself, yes and published decades ago but no longer in print TG, I often back off replying to some of the more offensive ( to me ) troll threads. I make no apology for the brutality of my offerings against neoNazis of anykind when/where they pop-up. and they and their sympatizers here know who they are! You ask for it, I will let you have it. Again it is not a musician's website where we host offensive dross of whatever kind, and we should have the right to expect appropriate standards be upheld. IOW If it's offensive policrap, it should be deleted immediately.

The wannabes here suffer from a fish in the dark complex, they don't know who's reading them and how much they are appreciated or hated, they simply assume that because what the write is correct prose it is good.

Sorry, but as Gargoyle proves, that ain't enough. You have to offer something else, even if Scrooge envies the nastiness of your spheel. And then as 'The Anal Annals' ( Harry Potter ) shows it doesn't have to good English either. You just need to be interesting, and as somebody already said, either you got it or you don't.

I always think about Hemmingway when this side of the subject comes up. Like Rollingpins he was not that great of a sentence writer, but his paragraphs are like jail cells, once in you cannot get out until the last word.

"Writing itself is too damn hard" sure if you make a chore of it!