A question for all the writers out there
have you ever written something, then edited it, then had someone else edit it, then edited it again, then had someone else edit it, then edited it yourself again, then re-read it and thought “THIS IS A PIECE OF MOTHERFUCKING CRAP” and wondered how the hell that could possibly be, with all that editing??? and THEN felt really, really, really badly about your writing abilities as a result?
Blogging is so. So. SO. SO. easy compared to writing a cohesive narrative of 2000 words or more. Blogging is jotting down your thoughts. Anyone can jot down thoughts in a coherent and more or less amusing fashion. But try making an actual long-form argument - that MAKES SENSE - without resorting to cliche or banality or circular rhetoric or just filler … while still maintaining your voice?
ugh, it’s not easy.
PS. Excluding my Time Out editors (and my mother), the best editor I’ve ever had, a man who I swear is a genius, is Jesse Oxfeld. What this man can do with copy is mind-blowing.
Okay, I was going to refrain from discussing / reblogging Julia Allison on this, or any other blog BUT this post is just too much. What kind of question is this? Of course it’s much harder to write articulately and intelligently for 2000 words and maintain your voice and argument. That’s how you tell a good writer from a bad. Should this not be a wake-up call to Ms.Allison that she is far better suited to snivelling, drivelling blog entries, than actual journalism? It is infuriating to see someone so ridiculously inept at what she does and yet being published, complain about how difficult it is to write a single article on dating. Thank the lord no one is asking her to write anything researched and meaningful lest her precious lobe implode. Did I already say ARGH!? Because, ARGH! So many things to say, but brain cannot form sentences, too annoyed…………
ELAINE! Help. Make this go away.
