All Comments on 'It Ain't Literature'

What a lot of confused, badly written codswallop. Completely worthless. Please delete it; it just wastes space and might mislead the odd beginning writer.

Let's start by listing a few of the cliches: aficionados; skill sets; nail down; self-appointed cultural elites; If I may make a generalization; is dedicated to; in and of itself; one element among many; the human condition; quipped; anywhere and everywhere; Individuals; face of the earth; the small truth; weight and depth; for good or for bad; musings and strivings; new and original; some magical number; stumbling blocks; if you will; the same damn things; mental masturbation; wrestle with; hours and days

Now for images that don't convey what you want: sabotaged; a gift for artists; writers presented on this site; collective human mind; Unless the brain is incorporated; stimulate the brain for sex; self-contained view

Jingles: preferences and perversions percolating; obtuse, obscure; adding adjectives and adverbs; commentators condescendingly conclude

Phrases that don't seem to mean anything: how the story of sex; combined and notated; the crux of the dilemma; always or even necessarily; grand literature; how the circumstances came about; one of the most popular dynamics of the human soul

Factual errors: arbitrary set of rules; grammar is the best and most flexible system; although there are many rules; the skill sets; Only after these rules are applied accurately will the reader be able to understand the quality of your thoughts and story; No one has a clue what you are saying without good grammar; Human beings are by definition curious; these same commentators claim

Comma misplacements: self-appointed cultural elites and few; The stories may be about sex but without other elements of human life; the brain is key and not the cock; dynamics of the human soul or from remorse to forgiveness

Long words used where simpler ones would be just as good and sound less pretentious: percolating; aficionados; proclivities; façade; incorporated; protagonist

Sexism: his; he

And I haven't begun on your patronizing, lowbrow attitude, which pervades the whole thing and makes you sound completely illiterate.

OK, some of it could seem pretentious if that is what you are/were looking for but I felt the piece made some very valid points which should be taken on board. There is no doubt that some of the stories on here are better written than others. Having said that I have yet to read a truly awful one and, for the most part, they leave me thinking "I wish I had written that". Keep it up (as it where) all of you!

You are "right on" my dear sir. Disregard any comment stating otherwise. Those who wish to excel will take due note of your remarks and those that don't will not.

I don't agree with everything here, but your ideas are well thought out and I commend you for writing this. "How To" stories are generally a labor of love, as they rarely pull in the big votes and a lot of comments. Thank you therefore, for the labor......

Well written. I agree with what you have said in your composition. I've read many stories here and found that most of them contain around 500 words and the sex just starts from nowhere and ends abruptly. It's like reading a letter in Hustler or Penthouse magazine.

The ones I enjoy are the ones with a plot, where it isn't just full of flat and static characters (Ex. "Jim fucked Sarah. The End." This does not arouse me.) I like stories like the "Six Times a Day" series, where even though the author writes long stories with very little or no direct intercouse, it's interesting and descriptive enough to be arousing.

Remember people, just because you put the word "fuck" 499 times in a 500 word story does not make it stimulating or good at all.

Like any other skill, writing takes time and practice to develope. Thats all it is really, a skill. The more one writes the better they will become at it.

Still, spell check and grammer check are fairly common tools these days, if someone is adding a story for public consumption its the least they could do for the reader.

Still, no ones getting paid here, everyones having fun, if thats not stimulation enough then go elswhere. I'm enjoying the articles, even the bad ones. Lord knows i'm contributing enough of those myself.

Love and light,

Wupy

Excellent points, all.

One problem exists however, do the people that truely need such information actually read it? (Bad joke?)

P.S.

(not for the author, one of the comments made)

What the HELL is codswallop?

An hour of research failed to reveal that one.

Some additional or, perhaps, redundant comments to current or prospective writers: (1) Write about human relationships, not two animals in heat. (2) Instead of, " I told her..." or, "She said that she...", write some dialogue! (3) PLEASE do not write in the style reporting the protagonists internal observations. Nothing could be more boring than, "I saw you coming toward me down the walk. You smiled when you passed." etc.,etc. ad nauseum.

If it makes my cock hard as I read it then it is good literature. If it makes me cum at the end then it is very good literature.