Re: Gareth's competition comments


12 Oct 1995 08:44:58 -0400

In article <45ilbr$31k@nic.lth.se>, mol@marvin.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
writes:

>I'll try not to whine too much. Let's just say that if this is the
>general opinion (not just the effect of Gareth's having had a bad day
>jsut when playing Zebulon or something like that), I'll have to do
>some serious re-thinking of my life and my future.
>
>Sure, "Zebulon" *is* a bitpedestrian. I deliberately aimed at doing
something
>not too outlandish, not too "literate".
>
>However, I did put some effort into the writing, and if the best I can
>achieve is so bad, I'd better give up writing altogether. Yes, I m
>whining, but this is actually quite serious: I simply don't want to be
>associated with very flat and lifeless writing, that's neither vivid
>nor humorous. In that case, it's far better that my efforts so far be
>qucikly forgotten. Above all, I can see no point in writing any more
>dull, flat and lifeless prose - after all, one does put in quite a lot
>of one's mental energy into this, and perhaps I could find more
>fruitful ways of spending that.
>
>

If it makes you any better, I enjoyed it, and thought it was quite
clever.
TTFN
Joe Frank
joefrank@aol.com