Sometimes one has to point and laugh
Jun. 25th, 2007 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumCliff Burns is a blogger.
Which makes him part of a really selective crowd. Cliff is, however, apparently shit hot at this blogging thing, unlike the rest of us. To make sure he's not relegated to the thin gruel which comes of other people reading a blog, and telling two friends, he is, an unrepentant blog pimp.
Which is a forlorn sort of thing. I know about Mr. Burns because he wandered into Making Light to tell us all about his witty, and trenchant blog, by linking to a post explaining (to a crowd of writers and fans, on a blog run by editors) that the genres we like are all drivel and crap; poorly written, as a rule, and failing to do things the way he thinks they should be done.
He then made an effort to defend this position.
To say he was gently handled is, mostly, true. But that doesn't mean he didn't get a bit of roasting (even with my brain cramping defense of the field including a conflation of Robert Jordan with Joel Rosenberg, the latter being a damned fine writer, Ties of Blood and Silver ought to be better known than it is).
And now he's trying, in his defense to something most people would never have known of, trying to mock people who make pleasant doggerel with Chtulu and Queztacoatl (at least one in the same verse).
He's going to get the hits he's seeking, but perhaps not the response.
Which makes him part of a really selective crowd. Cliff is, however, apparently shit hot at this blogging thing, unlike the rest of us. To make sure he's not relegated to the thin gruel which comes of other people reading a blog, and telling two friends, he is, an unrepentant blog pimp.
Which is a forlorn sort of thing. I know about Mr. Burns because he wandered into Making Light to tell us all about his witty, and trenchant blog, by linking to a post explaining (to a crowd of writers and fans, on a blog run by editors) that the genres we like are all drivel and crap; poorly written, as a rule, and failing to do things the way he thinks they should be done.
He then made an effort to defend this position.
To say he was gently handled is, mostly, true. But that doesn't mean he didn't get a bit of roasting (even with my brain cramping defense of the field including a conflation of Robert Jordan with Joel Rosenberg, the latter being a damned fine writer, Ties of Blood and Silver ought to be better known than it is).
And now he's trying, in his defense to something most people would never have known of, trying to mock people who make pleasant doggerel with Chtulu and Queztacoatl (at least one in the same verse).
He's going to get the hits he's seeking, but perhaps not the response.
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Date: 2007-06-25 06:39 pm (UTC)Tiny text cramped around pictures in the middle of a column filling a third of my screen, with dead gray space outside of that. Oh, with a header that's a quarter of a screen of dead space with a nice green block, with the words "Beautiful Desolation" at the bottom. (I like the pretty green color. But I despise dead space at the top of a webpage. This is not paper; we don't need the title to be three inches down from the beginning.)
Already, I know that whatever he writes, he's not writing for me... he's writing for his own biases. He doesn't give a damn what his readers think, beacause he's not willing to use a layout that's not hard on the eyes or that makes the text look relevant.
I read a couple of paragraphs, trying not to be too distracted by the apparently meaningless images that he's shoved on alternate sides. Am I supposed to be impressed that he's picked a layout that wraps text around pictures? That he can find a stock photo of James Kirk to go with his diatribe against trekkies?
I'm supposed to believe this guy knows what good writing is? Oh, and he goes out of his way to insult people who like books he doesn't. (Ah... Harlan Ellison is one of his inspirations, but he doesn't like Trek?)