Top LJ Writer Friends

[desh]

It's time, finally, for the long-awaited list of the top 10 writers on my LiveJournal Friends list!

The rules I used in making this list:

• This is totally subjective. If your writing style doesn't mesh with what I prefer to read, your rating will go down, even if you're a good writer.
  
• I like "plain", expository writing a lot. I like more creative or flowery writing too, sometimes, but that makes it more suceptible to the previous rule.
  
• Only mutual friends. Don't want to bother any of the people I'm stalking.
  
• If you haven't written much, or much recently, your chances go way down. (Sorry, [Bad username or site: myq / @ livejournal.com], [Bad username or site: krisispm / @ livejournal.com], and [Bad username or site: gurami / @ livejournal.com]; you all almost made it anyway.)
  
• I don't count posts or parts of posts that aren't primarily your own original writing. Pictures, lyrics, memes, links, and the like don't help or hurt you.
  
• I don't factor in how well I may know you write in Real Life; I only count what I see on here.

Now, then:

10. [Bad username or site: jre / @ livejournal.com] I like to follow along as you change the world.

9. [Bad username or site: vox_dei / @ livejournal.com] If I understood more of what you said, this might be even higher.

8. [Bad username or site: ruthonfire / @ livejournal.com] Completely my style of writing. Are you sure we're not related?

7. [Bad username or site: peneli / @ livejournal.com] You never fail to say exactly what you mean to say.

6. [Bad username or site: arcati / @ livejournal.com] It's just like talking to you, and there's a reason people just like talking to you.

5. [Bad username or site: jdcohen / @ livejournal.com] (Writings at [Bad username or site: jdcohen_uj / @ livejournal.com]) If textbooks were written this way, I'd have read them.

4. [Bad username or site: kazulrw / @ livejournal.com] You make interesting from banal and beauty from anything.

3. [Bad username or site: noames / @ livejournal.com] At least as good as many of the newspaper columns I read.

2. [Bad username or site: johanna409 / @ livejournal.com] You convey emotion better than most novels I've read.

1. [Bad username or site: decibelle / @ livejournal.com] Every analogy, allusion, or turn of phrase you come up with, I wish I'd thought of it first. Most of them, I understand too, and I feel better about myself because of it.

Comments

[myq.livejournal.com]

LIVEJOURNAL USERS UNITE!!

CREATIVE GENIUSES COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE OPPRESSIVE "DESH" AND THE RANKING POWERS THAT BE.

THE WORKER'S HAND IS POWERFUL WITH A RIFLE.

[desh]

*****OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE*****

Due to his special lifetime achievement as a LiveJournal Legend, the recognition of his future potential, and the fact that I can't have blood relatives boycotting me, I am hereby awarding myq the Nigel Tufnel Memorial Award and placing him as co-number 3 on this list.

As my list now goes to eleven, there is no more room for other special dispensation, which would probably not be granted to non-relatives anyway. In other words, don't the rest of you think that you can move up just by complaining.

[flyinbutrs.livejournal.com]

1) Nigel Tufnel is most certainly not dead. He rules, and he doesn't really exist, but definitely not dead.

2) I think I should be on the list. Because I said so.

[myq.livejournal.com]

I should be first. Rumors spread on LJ rumor websites about when my next post will be published. Livejournal historians will view me as a lone renegade that took the LJ world by storm. When I walk down the streets, people whisper to each other, "Is that myq???? You know, from LJ???" Some people stare in awe, some young girls get together and giggle, some guys give me envious glares, but all of them realize that I am a Legend.

However, I will accept this "co-third" position as an olive branch. Who's Nigel Tufnel? I would google him but the Internet on this ship is so slow I'd be up for hours trying to find out.