I’ve been dipping – on an irregular basis – in to a blog that describes itself as ‘The ramblings of a procrastinating writer’.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I know\u20ac\u00a6 but speaking as someone who took several years to climb\u00a0over the procrastination wall, I thought I could help her.<\/p>\n
In her ‘ramblings’ she mentions she’s a member of another blog – one called Novel Racers.<\/p>\n
The title intrigued, so I’ve occasionally dipped.<\/p>\n
But my questions haven’t been answered by what I’ve read so I recently stepped in and\u00a0put them directly, viz: And having raced, what are the quality measures, and where is the evidence that the race produced quality output?’<\/em><\/p>\n The response worried me.<\/p>\n Hi Brennig. Way back a january a fairly small group us set out to see who was first to finish the first draft of a novel. No one checked…..we relied on honesty. Quality wasn’t important wither. in fact racing was important – it was the taking part \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n OK, please try to look past the lack of capitalisation, the atrocious grammar and the lack of coherence. Look at the issue.<\/p>\n I saw it straight away.<\/p>\n Quality in writing being unimportant?<\/p>\n Really?<\/p>\n I went back with a statement\u00a0that quality in writing was\u00a0an issue that any reader – and honest writer – really would think was important.<\/p>\n Her response ground me to a halt.<\/p>\n And for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n Brennig, quality is important but it’s not for other racers to judge other racers, if you get my point. The Novel racers is a motivational support group, we don’t critque etc we support \ud83d\ude42 So the race is a moticational tool and nothing more……..<\/em><\/p>\n Firstly, try to get past the awful grammar again.<\/p>\n Secondly I think she meant critique rather than critque and motivational not moticational.<\/p>\n Thirdly she clearly fails to understand that a good critique is the ultimate motivational tool.<\/p>\n Fourthly (from the point of a reader) what is the point of nurturing and supporting people who have no ability to write? How can this be more cruel<\/em> than telling them right up front ‘you’re not good enough to write for anyone’?<\/p>\n Fifthly (from the point of an author) where is the point in encouraging people to generate even more dire trash to take the ever growing mountain of slush to even taller heights – and trash that isn’t ever going to get published at that?<\/p>\n Sixthly her responses are precisely<\/em> the reason why quality in writing is important. Anyone who makes so many errors in so few sentences shouldn’t be in charge of a crayon – let alone a document producing device.<\/p>\n So I’ve stopped going there as of this evening.<\/p>\n I’ve stopped going to the novel racers and I’ve also stopped going to the website of the writer I wanted to help.<\/p>\n I’m sorry about the latter but frankly unless she moves away from the novel racers she’s never going to have an open mind that will value real ‘nurturing’.<\/p>\n B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been dipping – on an irregular basis – in to a blog that describes itself as ‘The ramblings of a procrastinating writer’. Yeah, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n‘Who is racing what, where, how and (most importantly)… why?<\/em><\/p>\n