reenka

Well, just to clarify, yeah, umm, she doesn't claim she does this 'just for fun' either way, hehe, so there was no 'fun' involved, only a sort of strident repetition that she wasn't doing it for 'High Literature'. So yeah, there are people who write this way & take themselves seriously all the way, which is what threw me off; it's not even that she thought it was 'good', either, but rather we sort of failed to have a rational discussion about it ^^;; I mean, ummm, I don't think one's writing has to be 'great' or 'serious' or 'professional', but even with a hobby, for me it'd be important not to suck. And flowery adverbs and melodramatic phrases and cliches piled on top cliches-- those things suck regardless of level of professionalism. It's embarrassingly, excruciatingly, painfully, disgustingly awful. At least, that's my honest opinion; I was trying to be open-minded but clearly I failed. :> There are obviously lots of possible valid styles, and lyricism is one of them (hell, it's pretty much -my- style), but as I told Maya below, ummm, lyricism != flowery melodrama. :[

Anyway, I don't care if people don't want to 'improve themselves'; this implies a certain level of non-defensive self-awareness. Like, for instance, I do think Mercedes Lackey should 'improve herself', but somehow that seems to be unlikely and also missing the point somehow :>