Angry email of the week
This one gets bonus points for arriving via Facebook with a time stamp of 5:53 a.m. Saturday night/Sunday morning.
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XXX sent you a message.
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Subject: Critique
Hello, I’ve been reading some of your things online, and I just wanted to let you know that I think you are a bit of a hack. Your articles are dry and without direction, and seem to follow a similar pattern of introducing a topic, person, or article, then taking poignant cheap shots at things you find to be less then satisfactory because you either don’t understand them or feel no one will read your articles unless your drawing first blood. I can’t claim to know the exact purpose for which you create these articles, whether it be career or because you believe you have something credible to add to the endless slag heap that is internet blogs and journals, but I have a suggestion: writing things does not make you a writer. You may write articles and critical bits on other writer’s works, but that does not mean you are a writer. I like to think of you as someone who couldn’t manage to create, so you instead draw a reader by sloppily feasting on the works of others. Preliminary ! and
immediate reactionary arrogance on the side, how often do you feel accomplished at the end of the day?
I’ve enjoyed writing this, so thank you for the opportunity. This line of work really is quite easy.
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