3 ms·
Sorry, but the writing style just grates on me. "It was nuts. Totally obsessive-compulsive. Call it an exercise in eccentricity or futility, and you'd probably
by jlarocco 11y ago
Sorry, but the writing style just grates on me.
"It was nuts. Totally obsessive-compulsive. Call it an exercise in eccentricity or futility, and you'd probably be right."
How is that humble? A good writer would tell the story and let the reader decide how crazy and eccentric he is.
There are a million ways to write about personal experiences without using "I" every other sentence and bragging about how great you are.
I probably shouldn't have even said anything.
- 96701 11y agoI don't see any bragging, what you quoted seems completely neutral.
- wpietri 11y agoYou seem to be confusing "I don't like X" with "X is not good". If you don't like it, you can just say, "Neat, but that writing style isn't to my tastes." You don't have to run around expounding on the guy's character flaws and making such sweeping assertions that there's no room for anybody else to like the piece. The guy taught journalism for 20 years and was a newspaper editor for a similar stretch. Maybe take a deep breath and consider that there are kinds of good writing that you haven't yet learned to appreciate.