From: julie@pascal.org

On Friday, June 6, 2014 3:35:35 AM UTC-6, mumble wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 02:04 PM, William Vetter wrote:
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> > On Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:58:27 AM UTC-4, mumble wrote:
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> >> On 06/04/2014 09:29 AM, William Vetter wrote:
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> >>> On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:21:11 AM UTC-4, mumble wrote:
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> >>>> On 06/03/2014 04:43 PM, William Vetter wrote:
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> >>>>> On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:32:48 AM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:
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> >>>>>> This all assumes you have any ability to "help" anyone.
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> >>>>> I have a question:
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> >>>>> does mumble = nursebee ?
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> >>>> You might be better served to ask yourself whether the offered comments
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> >>> I've played this game with you before.
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> >>> You haven't fooled anybody for more than a week in the last eight years.
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> >>> Everybody at Scottrade has a list of your usernames.
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> >> Really?  Why don't you post them then, smart-guy.
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> >> You post your work asking for comments, and the minute you receive some
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> >> useful comments that aren't all praise, you react defensively by
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> >> shouting "troll!".  Put up or shut up.
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> > There is a shapeshifter on investment websites that I've known for 8
years.  He is nursebee/sheila popeck/Risk_of_Ruin/mumble/grumble
JLo/snakedot/./Muzzled--TheAttackOnFreedomOfExpression and at least a dozen
other usernames.  Nursebee is one of his 
earliest, so that is what most people call him.  Like you, he likes to play
the gender ambiguous games, which made me suspect.  I was asking someone to
vouch for you, that they knew you, which nobody did.
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> I know nothing about these "investment websites" you refer to.
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> Here's my point: If you can't handle constructive criticism, then don't 
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> The source of the criticism is irrelevant, what is relevant is whether 
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> or not it is correct, whether it helps you toward better writing or not.
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> To ignore criticism and seek to discredit the critic instead is not 
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> useful, it is avoidance, and at best it does nothing to improve your 
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> writing skills.

Honestly, mumble... as I said... this is assuming that you have the ability to
help anyone.  It's not illegitimate to ask where you're coming from with a
criticism in order to help evaluate it.

Your first comment isn't helpful, unless "this really sucks" is helpful...
which it isn't past a single data point of a single reader that thinks it
sucks.  Scrap it, paragraph by paragraph... is just saying "this really sucks"
several times over again...
  It doesn't add up to more than 1 data point, no matter how often you repeat
it or in how many literary/creative ways you say it.

Your second comment reads like "now look how erudite I am" (just giving you
constructive criticism here) and you pronounce rules... and if you're
pronouncing "rules" and "musts" and "I am expounding the profound truths of
prose"... well then, it 
justifies asking for your credentials.

Do you write?  How does applying these profound truths of prose work for you
in practice? 

To William: My life is busy and stressed and reviewing anything is work so I
tend to barely skim rather than read and I've never quite gotten the bits with
the cats or what it's all about.  However, I trust that you know what it's all
about.  And I went 
back to read what you'd written and while I have not the first clue what on
*earth* demon from h*ll this guy is expecting the kitten to turn into, or why,
the passage itself is perfectly fine and clearly symbolic of various things
like denial of our 
weaknesses and our desire for the cover-up.

Also, if you're blocked, anything that gets you writing is good even if you
eventually throw it out.  

-Julie

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