Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:34:39 -0700
Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe Walks - my rant
From: Lisa Schaffer-Doggett 


On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention: Gene Wolfe has left 
> the building.
>
> Wolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on 
> the Locus Website.
>
> http://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html
>
> --Blattid
>
>

That is utterly unbelievable.  What a pathetic lot of juvenile, 
ungrateful, UNKNOWING, clueless idiots.  I don't even know where to 
start.  How about why  bother to take a writing workshop if you can't 
take honest criticism?  It pains me, pains me deeply to read that Mr. 
Wolfe was treated that way.  He is a writer of the first caliber, a 
truly unknown legend.  Those hacks should be grateful he even bothered 
to read their most likely unreadable tripe.  Personally, I don't have 
much use for writing workshops.  I think writing is far too individual 
an art and the workshops are full of whiny idiots like these.  I'll end 
this now with my paraphrase of Bukowski-  Where is something 
interesting to read?   Wait.  Don't tell me.  I know. You wrote it.


Sadly true
Don


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