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Patricia and her travels
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Packing up...2009-03-23 10:54:35
I've been traveling around the world since...well, alone since I was sixteen. I have, in total, recieved six honest-to-god, handwritten letters during my entire time abroad. No packages.
It isn't that my family doesn't love me, we just don't have that "I need things from you" kind of relationship. So, imagine my surprise when, halfway through a class on Thai Language (where I figured out that my chances of saying what I want to say are astronomically small...five tones means that each word (if you managed to have the correct sounds) has only a 20% chance of being correct. Add words for smaller percentages. I think I came up with a nice, round .01% chance of anything I say being what I wanted to say) there were two packages in the corner and one was for myself and a good friend of mine on the same abroad trip.
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Liz and Her Art
Betsy's Phony Bologna
exploring the world of fictional weblogs
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Rubbish2007-05-22 10:15:47
James at Progression has a good post about quality (or a severe lack thereof) in blog fiction, and all online-print. He writes:
I think that people aren’t terribly willing to shout about quality as far as the internet is concerned. If you went onto someone’s fiction blog and left a comment that tidied up some language, or made writing tips, you’d probably be termed ‘teh troll’ (or some-such similar insult). But you’re only giving advice! So, what to do? Well, that’s well out of my hands, and yours, and probably anyone else in the world. There are very few ways to legitimise the use of the internet as a mass-publishing tool, no ways to enforce quality controls on things that you aren’t uploading to your own servers, and no ways to stop people doing things that they enjoy...
He uses as an example some of the awful stuff that...
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