An Open Letter to a Career Crank
Do not go lurking around people's blogs at Xanga and MySpace monitoring them until you think you have something you can report to the TOS Police "to get them shut down." Do not report others for posting cover art for their own novels, when you yourself do it all the time. Do not claim that the artist, who created the cover art specifically for the novelist to use, didn't give her permission to use it.
You are a career crank.
The only things you've ever written worth reading are your rants against humanity and against people you have in your crosshairs at any given moment for whatever perceived injustices you think they may have committed against you, such as not buying your incoherent short stories.
You will never triumph as an author until people can take you and your writing seriously. As it is, they cannot. Do not think you can get ahead by sabotaging others' careers.
You are a career crank.
Note to TOS Police: investigate whether the complainant is a career crank before taking him or her at face value that a third party has committed a TOS violation. Investigate the alleged violation, before sending out a threatening form letter to the alleged offender. Posting your own cover art is not a violation of any TOS from any service that I know of. Not here, not at Xanga, and not at MySpace. Not at Wordpress, nor Freewebs, nor Blogsome.
Removing the "competition" sir (and I use the word loosely), will not make you a better author. It will not help you sell more of your lousy short stories. Neither will claiming that you deserve readers for your stories because you are mentally ill. Mental illness does not equate to sales unless you are Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf. Their writing was coherent, and followed basic rules of grammar and spelling. To A Lighthouse was written in stream-of-conciousness, and wasn't always that easy to follow, but it didn't mangle the English language.
You are a career crank.
What you are not is a legitimately published author. What I am not is a concert pianist. Saying that I am one doesn't make it so. I'll never play Carnegie Hall because I don't have the talent. I'll never be a writer, because I don't have the talent. Neither do you.
You have been banned from how many blog services and writer forums? I know of at least six. Why? Because you either violated TOS yourself, or used the member roster to harrass others via phone, email, and IMs. You are a hypocrite. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Fork, please.
Do not be malicious toward others. It makes you look like a career crank. That is the only career you will ever have.
You are a career crank.
You are a career crank.
The only things you've ever written worth reading are your rants against humanity and against people you have in your crosshairs at any given moment for whatever perceived injustices you think they may have committed against you, such as not buying your incoherent short stories.
You will never triumph as an author until people can take you and your writing seriously. As it is, they cannot. Do not think you can get ahead by sabotaging others' careers.
You are a career crank.
Note to TOS Police: investigate whether the complainant is a career crank before taking him or her at face value that a third party has committed a TOS violation. Investigate the alleged violation, before sending out a threatening form letter to the alleged offender. Posting your own cover art is not a violation of any TOS from any service that I know of. Not here, not at Xanga, and not at MySpace. Not at Wordpress, nor Freewebs, nor Blogsome.
Removing the "competition" sir (and I use the word loosely), will not make you a better author. It will not help you sell more of your lousy short stories. Neither will claiming that you deserve readers for your stories because you are mentally ill. Mental illness does not equate to sales unless you are Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf. Their writing was coherent, and followed basic rules of grammar and spelling. To A Lighthouse was written in stream-of-conciousness, and wasn't always that easy to follow, but it didn't mangle the English language.
You are a career crank.
What you are not is a legitimately published author. What I am not is a concert pianist. Saying that I am one doesn't make it so. I'll never play Carnegie Hall because I don't have the talent. I'll never be a writer, because I don't have the talent. Neither do you.
You have been banned from how many blog services and writer forums? I know of at least six. Why? Because you either violated TOS yourself, or used the member roster to harrass others via phone, email, and IMs. You are a hypocrite. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Fork, please.
Do not be malicious toward others. It makes you look like a career crank. That is the only career you will ever have.
You are a career crank.