Authors tend to be sensitive types. Perhaps thin-skinned is more accurate. After all, it’s not that writers are sensitive to you, but as a group, we tend to bruise easily, react strongly and bear longstanding grudges with a modicum of effort.
Whatever the reason, when you get a bunch of these daisies together in a forum of any kind, conflict is likely to occur.
Writers are people whose daily craft lies in the orderly application of carefully chosen words and phrases. To see them engage each other in a manner befitting a playground quarrel is both baffling and horrifying. It’s bad enough to see veterans going after each other hammer and tong, but when I see a newbie getting a beat-down, it really bothers me. Continue reading “Nuking the Newbies”
In the founding of every nation there are those who take up arms and fight for the cause and those who supervise the people who oversee the organizational units containing the clerical staff who type up and file the requisitions that make it possible to achieve victory within or slightly exceeding categorical budgetary constraints.