nadinbrzezinski (115,279 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2013, 10:15 PM
5. You can have them.
My parrots have far better manners for starters, and they don't do creative fiction writing...the likes of which is impressive. If theirs were not so bad and cardboard like...
I've just woken up so maybe my reading comprehension is not yet up to speed, but I don't really know what in the hell its talking about.
It looks as if she thinks that her parrots are starters, but the parrots have far better manners than other starters. I suppose this means the parrots, unlike most starters, don't constantly roll around on the floor laughing at her stupidity. I guess she doesn't realize that they do laugh at her. They just do it behind her back. It also appears that her parrots do NOT do creative fiction writing, but the creative fiction writing that the parrots don't do is impressive. At least it would be impressive if it wasn't so bad and cardboard like.
Nads, if you're reading this, don't feel bad that your parrots don't do creative fiction writing. Don't take a
riffle to them. They haven't crossed the Rubicon. Maybe their fear of global
climactic change is stifling their creativity. Or it could be that instead of creative fiction writing they want to write hard
nooos like you and I. Even if they have no writing ability whatsoever, the fact that you write for the East County whatever should give them hope that they too can get a job pretending to be a journalist.
Oh, and suffice it to say, don't let them think that because they are birds they can't get a writing job. I'm part pigeon, and I'm writing for the Conservative Cave Gazette. While the Conservative Cave Gazette has about three less readers than your East County whatever, we still put out some crunchy nooos.
Just tell them to know the script, connect the dots, spot the trends.