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22942537 No.22942537 [Reply] [Original]

What's the skinny on Mr Gardner

>> No.22942551
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Nobody really wants to deal with Gardner. His prose is garbage, and instead of taking a look at himself as a writer and trying to improve, he decides to die on the hill of a fifth-grader's 70th percentile level of literacy. Instead, there's just endless shilling of a product which reflects no real talent (innate; forgivable) or skill (can be developed; unforgivable). Writing is more than just putting words on a page in the same way that painting is more than just a bit of canvas with some colors on it in an arbitrary arrangement. The Gardner "novellas" are pretty roughly equivalent in quality to picrel. Gardner has the same level of mechanical skill with language, which is to say, not much. Instead of accepting the input of people who tell him that it's just not good and that he should really consider practicing and raising the quality, he just shills himself.
None of that is "gatekeeping prose." It's trying to get someone who has the skill level of a barely-literate, complete beginner that he needs to do a lot of work if he wants to produce something worthy of the incessant advertisement.

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>>22942551
absolutely thorough

>> No.22944077

wow, look at this pile of crap: https://files.catbox.moe/d9sukc.zip