October 22nd, 2009 / 5:26 pm
 Snippets
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what are some stereotypes in the world of writing? (internet or otherwise, content or author, etc.)  please include behavioral tendencies (bonus points for using a nature show tone).

58 Comments

  1. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:35 pm joseph—

      The Middle Aged Man Who Reads Too Much Bukowski And Wants You To Know About His “Hard Times” – The Middle Aged Man Who Reads Too Much Bukowski And Wants You To Know About His Hard Times has seen some pretty mediocre times. At, 17, he read Love Is A Dog From Hell and he will tell you that from then on he considered himself a writer. In 2009, he continues to use the word “whore” whether or not it applies.

  2. October 22nd, 2009 / 5:35 pm joseph—

      The Middle Aged Man Who Reads Too Much Bukowski And Wants You To Know About His “Hard Times” – The Middle Aged Man Who Reads Too Much Bukowski And Wants You To Know About His Hard Times has seen some pretty mediocre times. At, 17, he read Love Is A Dog From Hell and he will tell you that from then on he considered himself a writer. In 2009, he continues to use the word “whore” whether or not it applies.

  3. October 22nd, 2009 / 5:38 pm joseph—

      Correction: Reads nothing but Bukowski.

  4. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:38 pm joseph—

      Correction: Reads nothing but Bukowski.

  5. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:40 pm alec niedenthal—

      fucking simon van booy

  6. October 22nd, 2009 / 5:40 pm alec niedenthal—

      fucking simon van booy

  7. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:42 pm bill-3—

      One is that ‘internet writers’ have ‘black suns’ behind their eyes.

      Magic secret penises which wrap around the earth, forming mountains.

      Foul phrases, ‘they drink too much’, many of them love basketball too much.

      Ten percent of them are ‘starstruck’ at the more ‘famous’ internet writers, their penises are hooked onto the larger penises and piled up the mountain

      One day the mountain will have a mayor. The mayor will have the ‘maddest hits ever’ and will cover the earth in cream.

  8. October 22nd, 2009 / 5:42 pm bill-3—

      One is that ‘internet writers’ have ‘black suns’ behind their eyes.

      Magic secret penises which wrap around the earth, forming mountains.

      Foul phrases, ‘they drink too much’, many of them love basketball too much.

      Ten percent of them are ‘starstruck’ at the more ‘famous’ internet writers, their penises are hooked onto the larger penises and piled up the mountain

      One day the mountain will have a mayor. The mayor will have the ‘maddest hits ever’ and will cover the earth in cream.

  9. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:43 pm joseph—

      oh shit.

  10. October 22nd, 2009 / 5:43 pm joseph—

      oh shit.

  11. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:57 pm a moorad—

      hst/gonzo wanna-be’s.

  12. October 22nd, 2009 / 5:57 pm a moorad—

      hst/gonzo wanna-be’s.

  13. October 22nd, 2009 / 10:07 pm joeseife—
  14. October 22nd, 2009 / 6:07 pm joeseife—
  15. October 22nd, 2009 / 10:16 pm sampink—

      haha.

  16. October 22nd, 2009 / 6:16 pm sampink—

      haha.

  17. October 22nd, 2009 / 10:36 pm gena—

      the ‘young’ writers of the ‘internet’ that try to ‘write’ in an ‘indifferent tone’ and don’t use ‘punctuation’ except for ‘single quotes’. they also keep ‘record’ of the things they ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ and describe ‘mundane’ things in a ‘mundane’ manner which comes off as ‘interesting’ to ‘writers’ who write the ‘same way’.

      i don’t know if that’s a stereotype, but i see it a lot on the internet these days. maybe “fad” is a more suitable term for it. it’s kind of tiring to see on every other blog i click on.

  18. October 22nd, 2009 / 6:36 pm gena—

      the ‘young’ writers of the ‘internet’ that try to ‘write’ in an ‘indifferent tone’ and don’t use ‘punctuation’ except for ‘single quotes’. they also keep ‘record’ of the things they ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ and describe ‘mundane’ things in a ‘mundane’ manner which comes off as ‘interesting’ to ‘writers’ who write the ‘same way’.

      i don’t know if that’s a stereotype, but i see it a lot on the internet these days. maybe “fad” is a more suitable term for it. it’s kind of tiring to see on every other blog i click on.

  19. October 22nd, 2009 / 10:49 pm Cotter—

      Style: That the only writers worth reading have super-distinctive and arresting voices; or, put a better way, that B writer is good only when I can pick up X and know that B alone or one of B’s more talented imitators could have written it. Lots of writers have extremely subtle and nuanced voices (Joan Didion, Evan S. Connell, Carolyn Forche) and other writers have produced brilliant works which sound almost nothing like their other brilliant work (Anthony Burgess, Fernando Pessoa, Peter Matheson). Style, like personality, is a liquid.

  20. October 22nd, 2009 / 6:49 pm Cotter—

      Style: That the only writers worth reading have super-distinctive and arresting voices; or, put a better way, that B writer is good only when I can pick up X and know that B alone or one of B’s more talented imitators could have written it. Lots of writers have extremely subtle and nuanced voices (Joan Didion, Evan S. Connell, Carolyn Forche) and other writers have produced brilliant works which sound almost nothing like their other brilliant work (Anthony Burgess, Fernando Pessoa, Peter Matheson). Style, like personality, is a liquid.

  21. October 22nd, 2009 / 11:17 pm mimi—

      I love good gonzo and hate bad gonzo.

  22. October 22nd, 2009 / 7:17 pm mimi—

      I love good gonzo and hate bad gonzo.

  23. October 22nd, 2009 / 11:26 pm reynard—

      sam pink

      just don’t like him

  24. October 22nd, 2009 / 7:26 pm reynard—

      sam pink

      just don’t like him

  25. October 23rd, 2009 / 1:21 am Joseph Young—

      the terror of our inadequacy dividing the world again and again, again.

  26. October 22nd, 2009 / 9:21 pm Joseph Young—

      the terror of our inadequacy dividing the world again and again, again.

  27. October 23rd, 2009 / 3:21 am Sid—

      The thing I hate most about the internet is it encourages people to become even more clique-ish than they would normally be, encouraging them to shun those that don’t think or talk or like the same things as them.

  28. October 22nd, 2009 / 11:21 pm Sid—

      The thing I hate most about the internet is it encourages people to become even more clique-ish than they would normally be, encouraging them to shun those that don’t think or talk or like the same things as them.

  29. October 22nd, 2009 / 11:25 pm sampink—

      what is an example of that

  30. October 23rd, 2009 / 3:25 am sampink—

      what is an example of that

  31. October 23rd, 2009 / 3:27 am Ross Brighton—

      A lot of the blogs I follow cause really intense debate – there isn’t a lot of backpatting or circle jerking going on

  32. October 22nd, 2009 / 11:27 pm Ross Brighton—

      A lot of the blogs I follow cause really intense debate – there isn’t a lot of backpatting or circle jerking going on

  33. October 23rd, 2009 / 4:04 am rachel—

      in undergrad fiction workshops: the guy who writes a story where the female protag is porcelain-skinned, a booze/pill-hound, bleeds on bathroom floors, huddles half-naked, requires extremely precise description regarding her clothes and the proximity to their skin, does not seem capable of living before/after encounter with male, endures self-loathing and suicidal thoughts as a result of abuse we may or may not get to “see”, cries and cries, may be found in a ditch, inspires condescension/pity/protective instincts/lust in the male protag, who wears a trenchcoat, ruminates, quotes philosophy, lights cigarettes, tries to talk some sense into the her, obsesses, takes a drink, has sex with the her after the her has collapsed in his arms, later finds out the her has committed suicide or been murdered, mourns and/or revenges the shit out of her previous romantic interest, smolders, leaves one red rose on grave, cleans up blood in bathroom.

  34. October 23rd, 2009 / 12:04 am rachel—

      in undergrad fiction workshops: the guy who writes a story where the female protag is porcelain-skinned, a booze/pill-hound, bleeds on bathroom floors, huddles half-naked, requires extremely precise description regarding her clothes and the proximity to their skin, does not seem capable of living before/after encounter with male, endures self-loathing and suicidal thoughts as a result of abuse we may or may not get to “see”, cries and cries, may be found in a ditch, inspires condescension/pity/protective instincts/lust in the male protag, who wears a trenchcoat, ruminates, quotes philosophy, lights cigarettes, tries to talk some sense into the her, obsesses, takes a drink, has sex with the her after the her has collapsed in his arms, later finds out the her has committed suicide or been murdered, mourns and/or revenges the shit out of her previous romantic interest, smolders, leaves one red rose on grave, cleans up blood in bathroom.

  35. October 23rd, 2009 / 4:17 am sampink—

      i am confused about the way peopl use circle jerk as a metaphor.

  36. October 23rd, 2009 / 12:17 am sampink—

      i am confused about the way peopl use circle jerk as a metaphor.

  37. October 23rd, 2009 / 4:20 am sampink—

      take away this guy’s tool albums and he will be fine.

  38. October 23rd, 2009 / 12:20 am sampink—

      take away this guy’s tool albums and he will be fine.

  39. October 23rd, 2009 / 6:33 am reynard—

      should they use it as a pataphor?

  40. October 23rd, 2009 / 2:33 am reynard—

      should they use it as a pataphor?

  41. October 23rd, 2009 / 11:04 am david e—

      circle jerk works in every context you want it to work

  42. October 23rd, 2009 / 7:04 am david e—

      circle jerk works in every context you want it to work

  43. October 23rd, 2009 / 1:21 pm Michael James—

      …. circle jerk works great when not using it as a metaphor. When using the situation as a reality and then using the mirrors of writing to reflect all the various angles of such a situation.

      It’s kind of boggling.

  44. October 23rd, 2009 / 9:21 am Michael James—

      …. circle jerk works great when not using it as a metaphor. When using the situation as a reality and then using the mirrors of writing to reflect all the various angles of such a situation.

      It’s kind of boggling.

  45. October 23rd, 2009 / 1:27 pm a moorad—

      this – this is a circle jerk

  46. October 23rd, 2009 / 9:27 am a moorad—

      this – this is a circle jerk

  47. October 23rd, 2009 / 1:50 pm T—

      Wait. Is Simon Van Booy even enough on the radar to be a stereotype? I liked The Secret Lives, but this is an honest inquiry: is there something annoying about he way the guy goes about his business?

  48. October 23rd, 2009 / 9:50 am T—

      Wait. Is Simon Van Booy even enough on the radar to be a stereotype? I liked The Secret Lives, but this is an honest inquiry: is there something annoying about he way the guy goes about his business?

  49. October 23rd, 2009 / 3:45 pm mimi—

      I agree.
      An expanding, shrinking, recurrent, spiraling, and thoroughly entertaining circle jerk.
      A living, breathing, word-encrusted circle jerk that transcends the boundaries of space, time and, in some cases, identity.

  50. October 23rd, 2009 / 11:45 am mimi—

      I agree.
      An expanding, shrinking, recurrent, spiraling, and thoroughly entertaining circle jerk.
      A living, breathing, word-encrusted circle jerk that transcends the boundaries of space, time and, in some cases, identity.

  51. October 23rd, 2009 / 3:59 pm Richard—

      well, there goes my next book

  52. October 23rd, 2009 / 11:59 am Richard—

      well, there goes my next book

  53. October 23rd, 2009 / 5:32 pm a moorad—

      haha – THANKyou

  54. October 23rd, 2009 / 1:32 pm a moorad—

      haha – THANKyou

  55. October 23rd, 2009 / 10:01 pm reynard—

      feel like mosh pit is maybe a better term

  56. October 23rd, 2009 / 6:01 pm reynard—

      feel like mosh pit is maybe a better term

  57. October 24th, 2009 / 5:54 pm Ryan—

      Self-referential synecdoche and/or metonymy.

  58. October 24th, 2009 / 1:54 pm Ryan—

      Self-referential synecdoche and/or metonymy.