Comments on: It’s My Blog and I’ll Say What I Want To http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Tue, 12 May 2026 05:46:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: victoria p. http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/#comment-27 Sat, 11 May 2002 22:42:51 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/#comment-27 <i>I'm not full of myself; I just happen to have my own opinions. If you don't like them, then, as we say in the industry, click off.</i> Owning your opinions is great. It's the part where you don't seem interested in engaging in a discussion about them that baffles me. I also disagree mightily with your characterization of the word "fun" as useless. Words are not simply their dictionary definition. To say that they are is oversimplifying. They also have a connotative meaning, which changes with time and location. Language is not static, nor should it be. Why you have such a problem with colloquialism or the changing of the language, I don't understand. Could people be more specific in discussing things, choosing their words better? Sure. But I don't think saying that sometimes I write for amusement or fun, and that I do it out of sheer enjoyment makes my writing any less worthy than that of someone who claims to sweat blood and writes only for some obscure yet allegedly pure motive that, at this moment, is still eluding my understanding. Dismissing people or their work [the museless?] because they don't share your philosophy of writing strikes me as counterproductive if one wishes to *encourage* good writing. Taking the craft of writing seriously doesn't mean that it can't or shouldn't be fun (as in something done for amusement or enjoyment or, in fact, that brings joy). That's the attitude that's killing "high" culture in this day and age. If it's important, it should damn well hurt or be boring, otherwise you're not learning anything and it's not worthy. Feh on that, I say. ~victoria I’m not full of myself; I just happen to have my own opinions. If you don’t like them, then, as we say in the industry, click off.

Owning your opinions is great. It’s the part where you don’t seem interested in engaging in a discussion about them that baffles me.

I also disagree mightily with your characterization of the word “fun” as useless.

Words are not simply their dictionary definition. To say that they are is oversimplifying. They also have a connotative meaning, which changes with time and location. Language is not static, nor should it be. Why you have such a problem with colloquialism or the changing of the language, I don’t understand.

Could people be more specific in discussing things, choosing their words better? Sure. But I don’t think saying that sometimes I write for amusement or fun, and that I do it out of sheer enjoyment makes my writing any less worthy than that of someone who claims to sweat blood and writes only for some obscure yet allegedly pure motive that, at this moment, is still eluding my understanding.

Dismissing people or their work [the museless?] because they don’t share your philosophy of writing strikes me as counterproductive if one wishes to *encourage* good writing.

Taking the craft of writing seriously doesn’t mean that it can’t or shouldn’t be fun (as in something done for amusement or enjoyment or, in fact, that brings joy). That’s the attitude that’s killing “high” culture in this day and age. If it’s important, it should damn well hurt or be boring, otherwise you’re not learning anything and it’s not worthy.

Feh on that, I say.

~victoria

]]> by: Lori http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/#comment-26 Fri, 10 May 2002 21:10:47 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/#comment-26 And I have heard of remote sensing. I knew an INTJ who went to one of the training seminars. Fascinating stuff, in a supernatural kinda way. Thought about writing it into a book. And I have heard of remote sensing. I knew an INTJ who went to one of the training seminars. Fascinating stuff, in a supernatural kinda way. Thought about writing it into a book.

]]> by: Lori http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/#comment-25 Fri, 10 May 2002 21:08:47 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/05/10/its-my-blog-and-ill-say-what-i-want-to/#comment-25 I sometimes wish I were more of a revolutionary. Victoria disagreed with your comments as if they were mine -- until I realized that, I actually felt good about my gutsy bucking-the-diplomatic-status-quo, and then... eh. I have a muse, an editor, and a diplomat -- now I just need a revolutionary, and my split personality disorder will be complete. Too bad I can't afford to hire you to ghost one for me. :P I sometimes wish I were more of a revolutionary. Victoria disagreed with your comments as if they were mine — until I realized that, I actually felt good about my gutsy bucking-the-diplomatic-status-quo, and then… eh.

I have a muse, an editor, and a diplomat — now I just need a revolutionary, and my split personality disorder will be complete. Too bad I can’t afford to hire you to ghost one for me. :P

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