So out of nowhere, I received the following email from an email I was unfamiliar with:
I can write better than you. Show me how I am wrong. I am here to HELP YOU but it’s between you and me and that’s it.
I thought that was odd and wrote back, asking who he was since he hadn’t identified himself. He told me. His name rang no bells. Apparently he’s a convention organizer. I wrote back and said:
Okay, well, I’m unaware of your writing credits, and I’m pretty satisfied with the quality of my skills, but thanks anyway.
Seemed reasonably polite. Except I guess not because he wrote back again and said:
OK.
I feel bad for your situation and all and was trying to help, but I guess “listening to me” is too far out there a concept for you to reach me…
I mean, I was sitting around, minding my own business, a non-writer writes to me and tells me he’s a better writer than I am, and when I pass on his offer to help me, he gets snarky.
There are days sometimes I think publicizing my email was a mistake.
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