Well, there's a lot of bad writing out there, a lot of good writing, and an awful lot of Good Writing (TM).
The Good Writing (TM) is the worst of the lot. This is where people have something interesting to say, can write well enough, but are trying too hard and the writing gets in the way of the message. That's one reason why total control over your own work is not necessarily a good thing - most writers need an editor to rein them in a little. The photographic equivalent, to bring things a little closer to On Topic, is letting W E Smith edit his own work. Look where that led him. -- Bob "I counsel you, sir, always to read through what you have written; and when you find something that you particularly admire, to strike it out" --- Dr. Johnson > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Doug Brewer > Sent: 20 April 2007 04:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Blogging soon... > > > On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Except when they happen to be decent writers that are blogging > > what are > > essentially articles that might be good enough to actually be > > published > > somewhere. > > > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > I know you're being nice, and I thank you (um, if you're talking > about me...), but I do work hard on my entries, probably harder than > I do at making photos. > > Look, I know there are a whole bunch of smug blogs, and > snarky ones, > just plain bad ones, and all sorts, but if you care to look around, > there are some very talented people out there putting out some damn > fine work. Many just choose to have total control over their work, > rather than hand it over to a magazine or whatever. They're > using the > power of the Internet to get the audience, same as photographers, > musicians, designers, any number of vocations. > > It just seems quite silly to me to dismiss all blogs as something > inferior. > > Doug Brewer > http://www.drivingtheflies.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
