Subject: Re: ARRGGHHHSSSS!!!
From: Vincent Diamante
Date: 10/19/1997, 12:18 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com
CC: stinky@azstarnet.com
Reply-to:
diamante@gonzaga.org

Amazing.  Incredible amounts of emotion I see in your writing of this
letter.  Your metaphors, if perhaps extrapolated, could serve your
fanfics well.  Perhaps you must revert to the simplicity with which
you write this.  I think you could do well as a fanfic author...or any
genre author for that matter.  All it requires is a tapping into the
simple energy which you exude in your current moods.  That is very
important.  Please do not give up on fanfic writing...I believe that
by putting perhaps LESS effort and relying on instinct and mood-based
techniques, you could do very well.

Vincent Diamante a.k.a. Sklathill

Dustin Goeller wrote:

I HATE FANFIC WRITING!!! Nothing I write comes out the way I want it too! I
can NEVER capture the mood or feeling I want the fic to have. It never
looks like anything I had originally intended! All my writing BLOWS! I HATE
IT! I HATE IT ALL!!!

I am LOSING MY MIND! I'll spend two weeks constantly working on one
paragraph, only to end up tossing the entire thing! It's SICKENING! If I
had access to a shotgun, I would surly be on America's Most Wanted by now!

How the hell do you people do it? How the hell do you guys write so GOD
DAMN magnificently?!? HOW HOW HOW?!? Tell me! It makes me so ANGRY that
what I have to work so damn hard on comes so easily to all of you! You guys
don't even have to try! You constantly turn out one great piece after the
other, with virtually no effort at all! It's not fair! Nothings Fair! I
HATE THIS WORLD! I HATE EVERYTHING!

Arghs! That's it! I quit! I can't take this any more! No more writing for
me! I was OBVIOUSLY never cut out for this line of work! Writing is for
PEOPLE who actually HAVE talent, something that I lack! Something that most
everyone else has BUT ME! You guys don't know how lucky you are!

Now, please, move on to the next post and pretend this never existed. I am
sorry about my over-sized mouth, but, my writing has been causing me
unbelievable amounts of frustration lately. I REALLY had to left off some
steam. I'm not blaming any of you, just myself. That's all.

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"Never take life seriously.  Nobody gets out alive anyway."
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