More on the Artless Wonder

[chrystalline]

Well, well, well. I decided to catch up on one of my (hopelessly behind on reading) RSS feeds tonight, and found myself confronted with a familiar name - the writer with whom I argued so fruitlessly over the last few weeks. Turns out the biggest brouhaha took place only a month before he decided to email me about it.

Here's the post that caught my eye tonight at The Rejecter. That led me to issendai's post here on the same topic, which in turn led me back to the post that started it all.

Frankly, I'd avoided mentioning his name or linking him because despite his insistence that it's not about the publicity, it was painfully obvious that he was after publicity. Having found this now, I've decided it doesn't matter. Reading through this January muddle made me want to do a F_Wesque skewering of his horrible grammar and misspelled words. My favorite was "egology" from this nonsense sentence: "And like blogland the wombwell is probably a weird egology." It reads like a bizarre cross between "ego" and "ecology" and seems oddly appropriate in the context of his refusal to acknowledge any faults in his own work.

And as long as I'm on the subject of people who can't take constructive criticism, I want to point out this which was linked on F_W the other day (yes, I'm reading too much F_W, but they point out some of the funniest links!)

PS - Meika, if you try what you did with Issendai's LJ, I will certainly be screening you, and possibly deleting your posts. Fair warning.

Comments

Standard disclaimer: Icon refers to Meika, not you.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Wow...

"My typos aren't typos! They're my style/i>!! You're squashing my creativity!!!" The cry of fanbrats everywhere...

Re: Standard disclaimer: Icon refers to Meika, not you.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

And I'm apparently incapable of closing an italics tag. *facepalm*

Re: Standard disclaimer: Icon refers to Meika, not you.

[chrystalline.livejournal.com]

That's okay, I knew what you meant:)

And I agree with you. It's a really, really old and tired argument.

[issendai.livejournal.com]

Meika is... a special boy. Between his increasingly weird attempts at self-promotion, his claims that he's not self-promoting, his "aw, shucks" acceptance of criticism, and his claims that people who don't understand him have inferior reading skills, it's hard to take anything he says seriously. And then there's his ideodialect, which makes it hard to work out enough of his meaning to understand what it is you're not taking seriously.

Back when everything went down, I was tempted to post him on OTF_Wank, but hat would just have been giving him what he wants. Sigh.

One good point he brings up is, What's the place of self-publishing now, and how will it change in the future? He doesn't have any clear thoughts on the subject--his position can be summarized as, "The traditional publishing houses will FAIL, ha-ha, and then everyone will get to read the slush pile and we'll magicallly become better writers!"--but it's still a good question. It would be nice if more of the people taking it on right now were able to balance writers' desires for a more open marketplace with readers' desires for high-quality books.

[chrystalline.livejournal.com]

I had wondered if he'd made it to OTF, but I don't go there as much as F_W. He seems to subscribe to the "if it's incomprehensible, it's deep" method of communication, which usually annoys me immensely.

I have to agree that the advent of low-cost printing technology means a change in the world of publishing, but I don't agree with his assumption that it automatically means people will read everything.

Aaaaannnd, I'm starting to get into full discussion mode, which means I either need to type up a whole post, or just stop, because I'm going to get too long;)

[issendai.livejournal.com]

*grin* Then discuss away! I'd love to talk self-publishing and small online presses.

He didn't make it to any of the wank comms as far as I know. Slid under the wankdar, so to speak.

He seems to subscribe to the "if it's incomprehensible, it's deep" method of communication, which usually annoys me immensely.

I'm not sure it's intentional. It's there, yeah, but he doesn't seem capable of being comprehensible. He complains somewhere that people don't want to talk to him, so I suspect the gibberish pours out of him naturally, unstoppably.

Actually, I suspect that he has Aspergers. He has the right flavor of not-getting-it.

Anyways, if you Google for "dolebludger," you can find traces of his pre-revolutionary-author days. Fascinating stuff, in the "How can someone reach this age and still think this way?" sense.

[chrystalline.livejournal.com]

Oooh, an invitation;)

I started to reply here, but it got really long (http://chrystalline.livejournal.com/46976.html).

"He complains somewhere that people don't want to talk to him, so I suspect the gibberish pours out of him naturally, unstoppably."

That makes me almost feel sorry for him. On the other hand, there's not much I can do for him if he doesn't get anything I say, so I guess the best option is to back away and leave him alone.

I see what you mean about his past writing; it's pretty amazing what came up. I can't imagine trying to deal with that long-term.