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Aw, Shucks
by Monolycus on Aug 15, 2003 - 11:25 PM
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Thank you very much for the praise, Bettie. Honestly, I am not so much anti back-patting, as it just doesn't give me much to respond to. All I can really do is to keep trying to find newer and more creative ways to say "thanks". Also, I am very, very pedestal shy... I recently said to someone that putting someone on a pedestal just increases the risk of injury when they inevitably fall from grace. But I do appreciate the occasional kind word.
I am interested to find out what has worked (and hasn't) and why it has worked (or didn't) so that I can improve both my writing and my Weltbild in the future. This latest submission has some very awkward pacing problems... I think that it lags when I am trying to insert certain very debatable points, and I think I treat many of those ideas with far too heavy a hand. I did cram it full of a great deal in the way of my personal philosophy as well as current events (I have yet to receive ANY flak over the reference to the Challenger disaster which I handled in a deliberately callous way, or the many offhanded references I made to the Iraqi situation... I was fairly sure I would get a teensy bit barbecued for that). I'm always sure that someone, somewhere, is holding back something scathing. If that scathing something is literary criticism and not personal griping, I am all ears.
At any rate, your praise does actually mean quite a bit to me. Thank you.
~M.
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