it's like meeting the real Santa. no, wait. I think I'm spelling that wrong.

[hth]

I used to think you had to volunteer to be belittled in Joe Mallozzi's blog, but apparently they're drafting people now.

You know, I really thought about engaging with him (if only to correct the clear misreading of the last quote he puts up there -- I hope it's obvious to all of you that I didn't mean you could ONLY care about people you'd met, only that you were BOUND to do so, while it's often a lot more hit-or-miss with strangers) -- and then I remembered that we're talking about Joe Mallozzi, and that the reason I don't communicate with him *to start with* is that I think he's an asshole who treats the fans foolish enough to play that game like dirt. That hasn't changed, so I can't see where commenting would do me much good.

But I thought I'd let y'all know I was being talked about over there. It's practically like being famous!

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Yeah, and I think that's unfortunate, but I know that it is in a lot of people's basic nature. I tend to be the opposite, and I have to resist being too self-effacing -- you didn't like it? I probably suck, I'm so sorry!

But you know, I get over that, because it's weird and compulsive and doesn't reflect any truthful sense of where the writing succeeds *or* where it fails. So I kind of expect other people to put forward the same effort and get over their issues. Because you're not going to learn anything if you're always either apologizing for your work or defending it -- you have to have a grip on reality to know when it's the appropriate time to do both those things.

That said, I really do have some sympathy with him; there's a reason I don't mail these things directly to the writers myself.