Mar 13 2010
I have arrived!
Hello, I'm an assistant editor providing writing advice. SN specializes in superhero writing advice, obviously, but most of the advice here applies to fantasy and sci-fi as well.
This isn’t as awesome as Janet Reid’s rejected-author-turned-nutjob, but I think I have my own pet loony.
Earlier today, I received the latest e-mail from a particular troll asking to be unbanned. See if you can guess why he got banned.
SUBJECT: Shut up and listen for once. A master of diplomacy, this one. Here’s a brief snippet: ”You only really have experience at getting almost everything (including this) wrong without actually getting around to realising it… While you may have experience in your field, I study literature at a professional level.” I’d like to preface this by saying that I don’t think credentials are terribly important in writing. However, if you’re going to make an appeal to authority, perhaps you could come up with something more impressive than being an English major. Thanks.








