I wish that teenagers today had the same self-restraint. I wouldn't even share some of my stories with my parents when I was young. "Writing for the drawer" has gone out of style. They are all rampant exhibitionists who want praise (and nothing but) for everything they do. Then, of course, there are those who are over 14 in years, but are just emotionally retarded.
I was on a yahoo group, that meant I couldn't avoid getting the 18C stuff mailed to me in the lists. What I found disturbing was that negative comment, however polite, was not allowed, and was considered to be 'flaming', lest it deter some people from writing. The fact that some people ought to be deterred didn't seem to occur to anyone. Some of the worst examples (such as the imposition of Japanese manga stereotypes on 12C Outremer) were by over-20-year-old adults who were still emotionally 14-ish.
I strongly believe in deterring bad writers (including published ones). There should be a "national do-not-write-a-novel month". Or year. They could always take up knitting, or something that they are actually good at.
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Date: 2007-10-27 04:45 pm (UTC)I was on a yahoo group, that meant I couldn't avoid getting the 18C stuff mailed to me in the lists. What I found disturbing was that negative comment, however polite, was not allowed, and was considered to be 'flaming', lest it deter some people from writing. The fact that some people ought to be deterred didn't seem to occur to anyone. Some of the worst examples (such as the imposition of Japanese manga stereotypes on 12C Outremer) were by over-20-year-old adults who were still emotionally 14-ish.
I strongly believe in deterring bad writers (including published ones). There should be a "national do-not-write-a-novel month". Or year. They could always take up knitting, or something that they are actually good at.