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From: The Critic <ranma_critic@hotmail.com>
To: ffml@fanfic.com <ffml@fanfic.com>
Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 2:09 PM
Subject: [FFML] Critical Writing Skills (#1)

Canonical Characterizations 101:  Descriptions

Many unexperienced writers

Ralph "Miko" Wiggims:  Me, unexerienced?  That's unpossible!

Miko's Critical Writing Skills tip of the week (useful both for writers of
stories and writers of essays on criticism).  If you're attempting to do
more than casual C&C or commentary, it helps to proofread and spellcheck
your work.

As a side note, something I feel I should point out, the word 'prose' is
singular.  To say "the prose are spectacular" or "the prose are boring" is
wrong.  "The prose is boring" is the correct way to phrase it.

You may even say, "Miko, the prose in your story is beautiful beyond
anything I have ever encountered in the English language!  Why are people
studying Shakespeare, Conrad, and Lawrence when they could be reading YOUR
work?"

I won't mind.  Really.  ^_^

Miko!

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, "it
means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many
different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's
all."

(Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass)

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