Adrienne_Ray wrote on Feb 23rd, 2012, 4:32pm:Was I being harsh? I didn't mean to be. I liked the story. In fact I think we all wish someone would step in and save our favorite writers from themselves and make them write their best stuff.
No, no. I said I thought
my post would come off as harsh; meaning I was glad, when I read your post, it didn't sound harsh, after all.
I had also pointed out that, as far as writing goes, I think there are too many fabulous writers out there to pick from for publishers to ever force writers to write. They would simply take them to court, if monay was the issue (as it almost always is; wanting their advance back).
Quote:Our mission, as with any correctional facility, is to punish and rehabilitate. Grammatical errors, poor description, overuse of adjectives, bad dialogue, these are all punishable offenses. Some, like yourself, have forgotten how to write a good story. That last piece you wrote really stunk to high heaven. Plagiarists are routinely executed here”, he said. “We’ve found that there is no way to rehabilitate a plagiarist.”
Unfortunately, this is only a writer's story for writers only. Non-writers would never understand the part I underlined above. A peek at any news article's comments online should be suffice to understand that.
And as far as plagerism goes, there have been a couple teen phenoms who put out books that were said to have been heavily plagerized. Last I read, nothing happened because, nowadays, there seems to be a question of what exactly plagerism consists of; and I blame the internet for that, although pirating of movies and music has been going on for decades. Why work hard at something of my own when I can steal someone else's blood, sweat, and tears to my own monetary advantage?