A Responsibility Taken Lightly
My formal apology to all the new writers
A few days ago, I wrote a scathing message to new writers who frequent these hallowed writing hallways of ours. By scathing, I mean it was a brutal tongue lashing. It was a message that was full of vitriol and condescending tone about my take on a few new writers who, in my opinion, don’t take their work seriously.
Even a few veteran writers were shocked and taken aback, and they told me so, some via private message, and others by open comments. Not a single one of them disagreed with what I said, but whoo boy, a shit ton of them disagreed with the way I said it.
Seriously, people, it was almost the rant to end all rants. This morning, although it’s had several reads, actually more than it probably deserved, I thought about deleting it.
Then I thought, no, I’m not going to delete it. I want that piece out there to serve as a constant reminder to me that I screwed up royally. Every time I go back to it (and I will), I will read it and shudder and wince at its vicious, almost vindictive delivery style.
And no, I’m not going to provide a link to it. Let’s just let that sleeping dog lay, shall we?
I want to set the record straight right now. To all you new writers who have been writing here for six…
