Comments on: Writing So Good It’s Bad http://blog.4d2.org/2008/09/04/writing-so-good-its-bad/ Because everyone else already has one Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:23:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Kara http://blog.4d2.org/2008/09/04/writing-so-good-its-bad/#comment-1474 Kara Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:14:37 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=581#comment-1474 an example of a literary allusion that works: "Of course, CW isn't usually playing against broadcast networks whose prime-time audience is aging faster than Dorian Gray's portrait, thanks to the inclusion of an hour of Republican National Convention coverage." from a washpost article by the tv lady I ragged on a whole bunch when she couldn't get the names of Beatles songs right. an example of a literary allusion that works:

“Of course, CW isn’t usually playing against broadcast networks whose prime-time audience is aging faster than Dorian Gray’s portrait, thanks to the inclusion of an hour of Republican National Convention coverage.” from a washpost article by the tv lady I ragged on a whole bunch when she couldn’t get the names of Beatles songs right.

]]> By: Dankoozy http://blog.4d2.org/2008/09/04/writing-so-good-its-bad/#comment-1479 Dankoozy Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:52:56 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=581#comment-1479 The stuff about charlotte's web didn't make a single drop of sense to me. but that guy really goes through a lot of trouble to extract a whole lot of information from nothing. how can he write so much crap without saying a single word about what it taste. The stuff about charlotte’s web didn’t make a single drop of sense to me. but that guy really goes through a lot of trouble to extract a whole lot of information from nothing. how can he write so much crap without saying a single word about what it taste.

]]> By: Kara http://blog.4d2.org/2008/09/04/writing-so-good-its-bad/#comment-1464 Kara Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:09:31 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=581#comment-1464 If I were going to use a literary image, I'd evoke animal farm because the pigs there aren't so cuddly, which makes it easier to eat them. Shit, man, I know what they did to those horses. We had to kill them, after that. If I were going to use a literary image, I’d evoke animal farm because the pigs there aren’t so cuddly, which makes it easier to eat them. Shit, man, I know what they did to those horses. We had to kill them, after that.

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