International embarass yourself as an artist day

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International embarass yourself as an artist day

February 25, 2006 by will shetterly

Because there isn’t enough bad prose on the internets. Thank you, matociquala.

Actually, I think it’s a fun idea. But since enough of my bad prose is in print, I really don’t feel the need to prove that I’ve written things that were worse.

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13 Responses to “International embarass yourself as an artist day”

on January 1, 2001 at 12:00 am1 anonymous
on February 25, 2006 at 4:05 am2 coffeeem

Chick-en!
on February 25, 2006 at 4:08 am3 coffeeem

(I don’t suppose you’d be willing to say what you’re not pleased with, and why… Which could be educational, but it always ends up sounding as if one is fishing for compliments: exactly the reverse of the point.)
on February 25, 2006 at 4:33 am4 willshetterly

I can do that.

I’m displeased with the stuff that sucks because it sucks.

I am not fishing for compliments because when I want compliments, you will be caught in the enormous net of the trawler that is my ego.

Okay, I actually did something like this, ahem, “celebration” when I included “Captured Moments” in Double Feature. Which I put in the public domain via Common Content, but deleted from the web because it’s so very mediocre.

Die, bad art, die!
on February 25, 2006 at 7:32 am5 matociquala

*g* Thank God for books going out of print, is all I’ll say. There’s one anthology I hesitate even to put on my brag shelf.
on February 25, 2006 at 7:33 am6 matociquala

I just thought of you while unpacking. I found my copy of Immortal Unicorn, and had to open it and pet your story.

That was TMI, wasn’t it?
on February 25, 2006 at 10:24 am7 willshetterly

Aww. Thank you. I’m very happy with that particular story.

A meme I wouldn’t mind seeing would be something like, “Name five things you made or did that please you.” I dunno if that story would go on my five fave things I wrote, but it would definitely go on my five fave short stories that I wrote.

Yes, grumpy jerks would use this meme as an excuse to be grumpy jerks, but that’s okay.

Will
on February 25, 2006 at 10:39 am8 rachelmanija

I’d do it, but the really old stuff only exits on hard copy, and I’m too lazy to type it in. Though I do still have my very first book, written at the age of seven, The Adventures of Ratsy.
on February 25, 2006 at 10:51 am9 matociquala

*g* I read it to unsuspecting people at conventions. That one, and “Or All The Seas With Oysters.”

I dunno if it helps or hurts, but–

–I really love it. *g*

And yeah, that would be a nice meme. But do me a favor and start it on Monday?
on February 25, 2006 at 2:13 pm10 hamadryad11

Hee! You’re funny, but you seem unnecessarily self-critical sometimes, you know that?

I suppose I could post the short story I’m working on right now, but I’d like to get better at this writing stuff before I embarrass myself that thoroughly.
on February 25, 2006 at 3:39 pm11 _eljefe_

Thats my excuse, I aint an artist, so I don’t need to embarrass myself this way. Besides, I manage that well enough in other ways. . .
on February 26, 2006 at 12:29 am12 hamadryad11

I hear ya. I have no trouble embarrassing myself in any number of creative ways. I don’t need to do it deliberately.
on February 28, 2006 at 2:47 am13 mycroftca

I love the icon…