tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post4121057037304622679..comments2024-02-24T15:58:56.712-08:00Comments on The Good Typist: Grant Rant, Cat Re-Christianing, A Stray PoemKristen McHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03467256747399406710noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-25060926811091920382015-08-09T22:32:37.937-07:002015-08-09T22:32:37.937-07:00I think it is good for writers to talk seriously a...I think it is good for writers to talk seriously about what we do well. As for education, let me just say that I have several degrees in physics and feel completely lost in the subject. I got a C- in college writing, but I feel very comfortable with that. Just the same, grammar is getting more and more obscure to me. Not that writing is grammar. But I wonder what a writing degree would really do. The only reason I'm any good at writing is because I love it. I think of it in a Nietzschean way: writers define the language and academics try to explain it. Not that I do anything new with the language. But I don't much care what the bastards have to say. Good luck with the proposal!<br /><br />Oh, you tell Mr Typist that he is being <i>no fun</i>. T-Bone would have been great!<br />Frank Moraeshttp://franklycurious.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-6236046248889378392015-08-09T15:17:31.627-07:002015-08-09T15:17:31.627-07:00Hi Frank. The extra "we" is fixed--thank...Hi Frank. The extra "we" is fixed--thank you! I may be able to write, but proofread I cannot. I don't know which quote marks yer bitchin' about so I can't fix them. <br /><br />I know what you mean about outsourcing, but I think it would be a good idea for me to just be a grown-up about it and learn how to talk properly about my work and my process. It's something you should be able to do as artist putting work out into the world, I think. It's good exercise if nothing else, rather than shrugging and saying "I dunno know how I do what I do, I just do it." I guess I'm just sensitive about not having a formal education or a writing degree, so overcompensate by feigning ignorance, if that makes any sense. However, I often don't know what my work is actually about. That part is true.<br /><br />"Written by a Kid" is series of shorts where a kid makes a up a story and they literary shoot it exactly as it's told to them. They are hysterical, in my opinion. "SQUAT Team"! Or maybe I just have the sense of humor of a five-year-old.<br /><br />Alonso...I like it better than Buddy but Buddy was one of those compromises. I wanted to name him T-Bone, but Mr. Typist promptly nixed that idea.<br /><br />Kristen McHenryhttp://thegoodtypist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-47388372909098432222015-08-09T14:29:00.685-07:002015-08-09T14:29:00.685-07:00I have an idea that is brilliant, insane, or both....I have an idea that is brilliant, insane, or both. You should get other writers you know to write these essays. I could definitely get 350 words out of how your work exhibits excellence in storytelling. Although I usually want a hell of a lot more words than that. And I don't think you want any judge googling my name! But I know you have respectable writing friends. I know the judges may find this literary outsourcing to be wrong, but all the best corporations are doing it, so I don't see the problem.<br /><br />Oh, and all that stuff about not knowing how to write is just nonsense! I know what you mean. I often feel like an idiot savant -- I just know what works and what doesn't. But it is the manifestation of actual knowledge. You teach writing classes! And yes, I know, you will say, "But I don't do anything. Blah, blah, blah." You've also helped me with my writing. So there. I do, however, have a problem with where you put your quotation marks. What country do you think you're in, woman?!<br /><br />Buddy is just acting out because he doesn't like his name. I suggest: Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda.<br /><br />I like the poem -- a lot. I especially like the second stanza about the bouquet and the rouge as war paint images. But is the first word of the poem really supposed to be "we"?<br /><br />Let me know if Buddy behaves better after being called Alonso!<br /><br />PS: I don't know what that video was all about, but: Dave Foley as a milkman!Frank Moraeshttp://franklycurious.comnoreply@blogger.com