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Originally Posted by evanhson357
Trying to make sense of what the so called experts say can be really frustrating.
Posts like this are a good reminder that I'm not going mad.
I wonder how many of the so called experts online have ever even written a book.
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Rather more than might seem credible, I suspect. It seems to me that the majority of online advice comes from writers.
I think the reason is that writers obsess. It's what we do; writing wouldn't happen if we did not obsess about ... everything. So, because we spend so much time thinking about writing, many also spend an inordinate amount of time writing about writing, much of which ends up splashed around the 'net. Regrettably, we writers also tend to be an excessively introspective and self-obsessive bunch, so our writing about writing doesn't always take in the wider perspective, and it seems that sometimes we end up going rather more boldly than we have the knowledge to justify where others have made a similar sort of mess before. (That really didn't have a Star Trek sort of ring to it, did it?
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