Oliver Craner

[craner]

Sorry for insulting your mum, m8.

I notice from my Wordpress statistics that you haven't read my new essay yet, Versh.

 

[luka]

Version hasn't read it

 

[version]

I'll read it later when I'm not absolutely fuming at you.

 

[craner]

The Queen of Condé Nast

I: Condé Nasties On the surface, Anna Wintour took public humiliation well. It was easier when The Devil Wears Prada was just a book, even if it was a New York Times bestseller and progenito…

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[craner]

I've learnt all about self-promotion from the master, @IdleRich

 

[craner]

It doesn't matter if people already know, tell them again.

 

[craner]

It's a simple rule.

 

[woops]

luke correcting spelling! what a piss take! how pedantic! how about this then it was a white house and fuck off! so pedantic!!

 

[luka]

they're not spelling mistakes they are typos Craner doesn't want them there

 

[luka]

I've also given a sensitive and complimentary response to the actual text

 

[woops]

what's the difference between a spelling mistake and a typo!! how pedantic!!

 

[luka]

Woops hasn't read your essay Oliver. Make a note of it.

 

[craner]

I don't mind people pointing out typos.

 

[woops]

luke does, he goes nuts when i try to suggest improvements to the quality of his texts for him, as though it's a personal attack.

 

[luka]

Woops is right i do find it irritating when you successfully bully someone into reading something you've written (no small feat) and their only response is a smarmy bit of pedantry. That does send me into a rage.

 

[version]

"Uh, actually Luke, you've spelled 'sugar glider' wrong. It says 'sugar gilder'."

 

[luka]

I think ideally you want someone to have recognised what you've done, why and how you've done it and perhaps to bestow special praise on some of the best bits of what you've done.

At a very high level you might have someone point out things you've done you didn't realise you'd done. This hasn't happened to me but I've done it for other people.

 

[luka]

Some people appreciate constructive criticism. I'm not sure I do necessarily, but I certainly dispense it liberally.

 

[luka]

Craner would you like to offer some guidelines of your own for people wishing to respond to your essay? Lay down exactly what you expect. Give them some clarity.

 

[craner]

I think ideally you want someone to have recognised what you've done, why and how you've done it and perhaps to bestow special praise on some of the best bits of what you've done.

At a very high level you might have someone point out things you've done you didn't realise you'd done. This hasn't happened to me but I've done it for other people.

One day I will be your Hugh Kenner but I haven't absorbed your long poems to the point of doing that yet. That's not to say I haven't read them, I have. But you have to live with them a while.