Writing

I get a bit angry when people comment negatively on my writing. I know I don't have the best writing style in the world, but that's alright. I don't need to. Don't get me wrong now, I like criticism, and I take it very well. I'm happy to be told what exactly is wrong with my writing. A long time ago, a very senior journo, and a very good writer, when he wanted me to move from a newspaper to telly said, "I've seen your writing. You're good, but you're never going to be a bestseller. So come to TV." I didn't go immediately, but I did, a year later."

It's happened a few times, when people will say, "you're not really the greatest writer around, you know." I didn't really ask for your opinion, and I'm not going to take your advice. I'll take it after you've won a pulitzer or something.

When it comes to a macro estimation of my writing ability, I prefer notes like an ex sent me. I think she pretty much hates me, but this is what she said, only a few days ago, with me asking for it.

"I think u have what it takes to be a good writer: a beard, sexiness, occasional meanness, occasional cynicism, hedonism, love for nature and all things beautiful, a slight melancholic bent and a good use of language and rhetoric."

So, screw you if you don't think i'll be great.