Comments on: IGOR 4

By: tetra

tetra — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:10:09 +0000

finally igor can stop whining. rules is rules. what a relief. then again, I miss the old tosser

By: Constantine Markides

Constantine Markides — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:16:02 +0000

After contestants submit their farewell statement their contributor status is revoked and they no longer participate on the website. This was agreed upon and been the case since the beginning. So the interactions will have to wait until December. But I’m sure Igor is reading and appreciates your comments, except perhaps the part about voting him off!

By: JDEvolutionist

JDEvolutionist — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:00:33 +0000

I did vote for you Igor but not for the reasons that you might think. Your writing has a real passion to it and a deep bitterness but it carries a strong message – your message. If this had been ‘write an autobiography’ you would still be there but it isn’t and I did not feel that it was a novella. May be I am totally wrong, in which case I did you a disservice because in that case you were doing a great job. If that is the case then you are not truly bitter and your final post is also just a continuance of your expressed style, if it is not then forget the hate; you have some real potential and keep laughing at the skinny arse holes. Start to interact, your influence could be strength of others.

By: Kaylie Jones

Kaylie Jones — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:20:03 +0000

I’m not sure this constitutes “fiction,” Igor, but you certainly write well. I’m a traditionalist, what can I say. I like my fiction old-fashioned and straight up. Not sure I’d publish NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND myself. Not D’s best work.

By: Igor

Igor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:30:46 +0000

But Jodi, the wilderness is the tunnel. In our age of constant unconscious online yakking, a little consciousness of the self may be just what we bloody need. You won’t regret the Calvino. Don’t take my word for it. Take littlestar’s.

By: littlestar

littlestar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:02:10 +0000

Igor – you read my mind! I’m so glad you mentioned “If on a winter’s night…” – it’s one of my all-time favourites and it’s been at the back of my thoughts constantly since this whole Fourth Fiction thing began!

By: princesss

princesss — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:06:39 +0000

Spoken like a true ‘stone smoking hot girl’ (although we’ll all have to just take your word for the ‘smoking hot’ bit). of all the writing on here Tony, you chose to pick on the guy in the wheelchair and the one who can’t write proper English? really? Hmm, either you’re just a typical north-american bully, or you didn’t bother to read Tess’s writing. Or, you did read Tess’s but didn’t indulge us in your illuminating insights because you just loved it so much you couldn’t stop touching yourself afterwards.

Whichever the answer, I’m sure you found a way to get yourself off.

Either way, your remarks are boring and uninteresting. You clearly don’t know the first thing about writing.

By: Jodi Cleghorn

Jodi Cleghorn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:31:13 +0000

Perhaps I might have to readjust my reading list – but one thing following Fourth Fiction has taught me – those who can adjust to the competition are the ones who will survive in the long run. This may work on the page with a target audience – but in the competition it is mired by too much backstory, too much introspection and no forward momentum.

And Auggie – you’re happy to tell others they’re crap when that’s what you believe (and believe you have the higher moral ground to do so!) – so give the rest of the same opportunity you afford yourself to say we don’t like something. I’m not a hater … I must bored with a narrative which apparently is going no where and a writer whose last episode is drowning in self consciousness.

You got lost in the wilderness before you even made it into the tunnel Igor. And for the benefit of the doubt I will add Calvino to my reading list.

By: Auggie

Auggie — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:22:47 +0000

jodi, you’re just a hater. anger clouds your analysis. igor is setting it up. allow him to be cynical and to take center stage all he wants. i wonder if i’m the only one bothering to read your substandard comments.

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:17:10 +0000

Sounds like you need to get a new reading list. Try “If on a winter’s night a traveller” by Italo Calvino to start.
You’re spot on. The battle probably won’t last much longer. Calvino wouldn’t have lasted with you duffers either.