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Top LJ Writer Friends
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:
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.
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.
no subject
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.