To circumcise or not to circumcise?

[Minimalist]

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Kitan Etos]

I try.  Yet I don't see you attempting to write a novel.  Unless you actually are...

I don't post my excerpts here, normally, but here, here's an excerpt from my WiP:

See, that's the difference between you and me.

I wouldn't have read past the first line, and I didn't, of your writing due to the fact that it was a cliche.

As a writer, I have evolved past cliches.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I don't post my excerpts here, normally, but here, here's an excerpt from my WiP:

See, that's the difference between you and me.

I wouldn't have read past the first line, and I didn't, of your writing due to the fact that it was a cliche.

As a writer, I have evolved past cliches.

Yes, I suppose so ... you've moved into stilted, unbelievable dialogue and cardboard characters. Good job!

PS: Perhaps had you read past the first line, you'd understand why I selected a cliche for the opening. It has to do with character perspective.

There's your tip for the day.

[Kitan Etos]

There's your tip for the day.

No need to become defensive.

Still won't read past that first line. Good luck with the writing, however.

[Little lunch]

If you choose to be a writer, you're practically hanging a kick-me sign on your back.
I commend all who dare to try. It's a very courageous thing to do.

[Losty]

[Kitan Etos]

If you choose to be a writer, you're practically hanging a kick-me sign on your back.
I commend all who dare to try. It's a very courageous thing to do.

I know that I am not the world's greatest writer, and I am not striving for that title.

I do agree with you, however.

Being an artist, in general, is tough. Everyone considers themselves critics whether they know about that which they are speaking or not.

Though to be honest, I think classic literature is crap and boring, the kind of stuff to put me to sleep faster than an alcoholic beverage.

The problem, I believe, is that everyone has an opinion.

In school, what annoyed me the most was that the teachers wanted me to have an opinion on what I had just read.

I pleased them and informed them of what they wanted to hear.

However, I have no right whatsoever to properly interpret what the writer meant to convey. I was not the one who wrote it.

I read for entertainment, to momentarily escape reality, not to misinterpret the writer.

If writing well enough means that others might want a class full of silly teenagers to interpret my writing, then I don't want that poppycock.

I never want any of my writing to be destroyed by Hollywood, either.

I just want to write. A true writer just writes.

[LastPoet]

My wife is having a daughter, so no peen to circuncise, but If it was a son I would only do it for medical reasons. Claiming it makes it more clean os an argument from lazyness.

[Thumpalumpacus]