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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Well for the purposes of your information gathering, I can tell you straight up that your disproportionately rude and personally denigrating response to ficbot, who was trying to provide helpful advice which may perhaps not have been phrased sufficiently to your liking, is a turn-off from my point of view and you'd have to have serious talent to compensate.
Anyway, Harlan Ellison is a highly influential and multiple award winning author, who is also fairly notorious for picking fights with just about everybody. But he really is that much a innovative genius wordsmith (at least at his peak) that people are willing to overlook his lifelong jerkishness.
With other considerably less capable authors who don't even possess a fraction of his sheer brilliance, that doesn't happen as much. |
I googled Ellison - no I don't have his talent, not a fraction of it unfortunately. So perhaps I'm playing with fire. Won't be the first time. Won't be the last time. Risk taking is an essential part of life, avoiding risk is just as dangerous and not nearly as much fun.