Burden me! Burden me! Though I admit that it might very well have taken me a while to get it back to you. So in the interest of quick publishing... >;}
Oh, but I recently offered to proofread the short story of a friend of mine, without really thinking about what that would entail. His work's... rather rough. I realized very quickly that the nature of my comments would be very different from what I've grown used to writing. A lot more about grammar; a lot more about style; a lot more about character development rather than refinement of character depiction. Skimming it, realizing to my horror that I'd forgotten that not everyone can write as well as pauraque... I feel like this work is a lamb I must eviscerate to divine the story from its entrails, not some mature thing that needs my touch to groom it....... And I really, really need to come up with some way to express my bizarre fixation with extended metaphor other than lj comments.... But anyway, you get the picture. >:}
(And don't you just hate it when it's something a person's bursting with pride for, because others have told him it's wonderful, but you have to say, cringing, 'To be honest, my dear, and don't take this the wrong way...')
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Date: 2004-02-02 03:14 pm (UTC)Oh, but I recently offered to proofread the short story of a friend of mine, without really thinking about what that would entail. His work's... rather rough. I realized very quickly that the nature of my comments would be very different from what I've grown used to writing. A lot more about grammar; a lot more about style; a lot more about character development rather than refinement of character depiction. Skimming it, realizing to my horror that I'd forgotten that not everyone can write as well as
(And don't you just hate it when it's something a person's bursting with pride for, because others have told him it's wonderful, but you have to say, cringing, 'To be honest, my dear, and don't take this the wrong way...')