This past Monday, Greg Schiller wrote a column about macabre humor. Well, I thought so anyway. I left a comment on that column about maggots. That night, I dreamed extensively of maggots. Honestly, it was disturbing so I won't detail it here lest I repel some of you from reading to the end of my column.
Well, I decided to find out how that dream might be interpreted. From scanning several sites, it looked like they'd all copy-and-pasted from one original article. Feh. What kind of writers were they? Copy and paste is for lazy buggers, no?
Okay, maybe it's not. But seriously, when you write here or elsewhere, does most of your content contain copy-and-paste material or do you write original stuff? In what situations do you think C&P is acceptable? When isn't it? Tell us in the comment section.
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Last week I suggested you quote from a book and use words like whippersnapper for your gwwe prompted post. There weren't many, but the use of the prompts brought out the wild stuff in some of you. Read and recommend these (I did):
Granny Speaks by Elsie Duggan
Love is....by Sheila Deeth
Maggotland: where curiosity killed the bug by Susan Budig
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Prompts for January 12, 2011
- The scene needs to be someplace crowded like an elevator or bus or concert, et al.
- Someone needs to shout something that hushes everyone else
- Use the words: bridge, Bob, bare(ly)--your choice on that last one
- tag with gwwe
- post by January 18 for publication in next week's column
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Comments: 77
As for dreams, I tend to be a scientific guy and am not a believer in interpretations - but I will go as far as agreeing that a stressful dream usually reflects daytime stress. Other than that, the brain likes to entertains us. It is why we invented fiction and it is why we like roller-coasters.... And every once in a while. when we are sleeping, the mind will take us on a roller-coaster ride..
in a one-eyed, half-witted brain,
o'er the Net we go,
laffing all the way,
it looked like e'erthing was fine
with miss minnee bride by my side,
until some poor sots drank too much
and the cart was ere upsot.
Oh!
C&P, C&P, C&P,
C&P all the way,
oh what fun it is for some to C&P all day long!
C&P, C&P, C&P,
C&P all the way,
oh what fun it is for some to C&P all day long!
C&P, C&P, C&P
((((((((((((((((Kathsie))))))))))))))))))))))
As for writing vs. C & P? How about if I'm C & Ping something I already wrote? ;)
I usually write my own stuff in comments, but you caught me right after replying to someone on FB by C & Ping something someone else wrote. I'm lazy, if I find someone else who said what I was thinking, I'll C & P - with credit (or implied credit, since the thing C & Ped said, "If you agree, copy and paste." lol)
As for writing? Drives me nuts when I catch someone's writing as plagiarism, even if two sentences here and three there. We just work too hard, as writers, ever to think it's fine if someone takes another writer's words without credit.
No needles.
No wrapping paper left.
I'm not fastidious.
It never did a bit of harm, now what do you think of that?
So why do they bother you guys?
Their hosts are all dead
So why do you dread
Unless they're in food that you're fed?
(j/k, KEO.)
hahahaha
Right you are, Susannah - your perceptions are so sharp! I was thinking I'd hook some poor soul and lure him in enough to say "bottle of rum...", but you read my *spirits" right, so to speak! :))
Wish you a very Happy New Year, Susanitah!
Wish you a very a very belated Happy Christmas and a garden-fresh Merry New Year! :)) Just twirling things around my lil finger, just a leetle! :)
(groaning allowed)
What, Wendy F.? Don't like my original artwork? Since my comment offends YOU so much, I'll delete it.
The Surreal Circus.
In Catholic school they warned us of severe penalties for plagiarism.
;-)
Be careful with the C & P from e-mail stuff. I read someone found her hardwork passing around the e-mail circuit with no permission, too. Even those things we pass around once belonged to someone.
No penance. It would go on our "permanent record." ;)
An occasional excert from a site - depending on what you write about is fine - but pleeeze:)
Love it, Veronica.
:-P
;-)
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Figures it's the owner of the Circus who said that.
I love the comments on this post...can't stop laughing! Thanks everyone for a great start in my day!
Copy and pasted bits in any of my content (mostly news pieces) was due to quotes that had to be taken as they were said, and I kept them to a minimum instead filling in the article with my views and commentary.
Like Redgage, they are a place you can place your links for whatever you have written on other sites and get money for it.
I guess that makes me lazy or something. Ha, ha.
Cut & Paste comes from the days before computers, so a writer could edit his or her work without retyping the whole thing. It was mainly used to edit newspaper pieces and scripts. Copy & Paste is the current term. And the only time I copy & paste is when I'm editing my own work.
I mistakenly wrote " cut and paste" , when I meant to write "copy and paste. " I suppose the point that we use copy and paste for links to other' pages and websites is just way to obvious and not what people are speaking out against at all . Anyhow I am rambling and my blog is calling me .
Thanks for commenting, Wendy.
That's where Susan went wrong - she thought about maggots too much and then went to sleep. lol
As for C & P - it's also useful for business proposals, contracts, and other business forms too boring to retype over and over again. (One of the few things I hated about my old business - making those things for customers. They didn't want to type it over again, so hired me to create just such a template. I hated business writing, but it paid the bills.)
I'd be lost without copy and paste, but usually my own work, or links, or obscure spellings that I want to be sure I get right.
I actually had a great story in mind for your last week's prompts and got wrapped up in personal stuff and couldn't write it. I have a bit over one day left to write to this prompt and -- I'm on it!
Today will be four hours of transcription, though, and for those who've never done transcription, four hours of clocked time is less than the actually time spent sitting in the chair working.