I'll read it, Connie.

Is that the only feedback you want, or specific line editing / typo catching stuff, too?

If you spot typos or glaring usage errors, please, let me know. I'm blind to such things for at least 12 hours after I write stuff. Profile addy?

AmyLiz and Hil, insent. No hurry, I just want to see if I'm on the write track with this opening.

edit: Damned Freudian homonyms. Right track.

Hell yeah, connie. Send it.

The only person my writing should really matter to is me.

And here you have tied directly into my deep discomfort with crit, whether on the level of teaching it, or getting paid to write it. I have absolutely no humility in me anywhere, so this isn't humble or faux-humble. It's pure puzzlement.

My opinion is mine, belonging to me, and if you want to hear it, I'll be glad to tell you. But value to anyone else but me? What the hell should it?

Anyone out there reading these words is presumably capable of reading and thinking and formulating their own take on stuff. So I get deeply uncomfortable with telling people not only why I feel one way about something, but far more uncomfortable about even considering telling them why they should think that.

I mean, go! Go go go! Go and read, or listen, or gaze, or stroke, or dance on your own, or whatever, but understand that the only thing I'm giving you, whether on your own stuff or anyone else's, is my opinion, mine, belonging to me.

Hopefully, those asking will find it useful. But if not? It aint the frickin' holy grail.

edited, to say it doesn't apply to people requesting feedback on the stuff they, themselves, have created. Different thing entirely.

I like knowing how other people take things, things I've consumed. It's why I'm here, after all, because I wanted to read other people's opinions on something I liked a great deal, to argue, be argued with, change my mind, learn angles, stick my ground.

Fuck the person who tells me what to feel. But I am curious about what they feel.

wrod. Writing is lonely, too.

But I am curious about what they feel.

Definitely. Sometimes, other peoples feelings on something will make me take a second look at something, or even a first look if I don't find the original premise interesting. It doesn't even have to be a positive take on something. I often go against Ebert and Roper when it comes to movies.

Roper is so Ebert's punk I'm surprised he can speak when Roger drinks a glass of water. That is not fun to watch. I miss the Siskel-bickering.

I miss the Siskel-bickering.

t Nods head vigorously.

I don't even to bother trying to catch them. I used to like it when Siskal and Ebert would just start laying into each other. You could see them putting each other's backs up. I always wanted to see one of them throw something at the other.

Deb, what's your preferred file format?