December 24th & 31st, 2018 - Acceptance Journey

Dear TNY,

“Acceptance Journey” is a big bowl of nothing fucking happens.  Cool story, bro.

So my general practice with your stories is to copy/paste them into a Word doc such that I can access them whenever I need while I am assessing them.  This means I have page numbers and you don’t.  So, first beef is that there are five fucking pages of throat clearing at the beginning of this story.  Like, why doesn’t this story start with Carol getting the letter in the tree?  The whole thing could unfold from there and be interesting.  As it stands, I am pumped by the time I reach page six because there are events that are fucking interesting and they saved me from drowning in the thick, shitty summary up until that point. But that interesting shit derails into problem number 2.

Problem number 2.  Nothing fucking happens.  The Grinch story is great.  It’s interesting.  This woman’s interest in serial killers is great.  Interesting.  But, the rest of this turdfest is devoid of interesting material because you, TNY, just accepted this as is.  It needs to be cut by at least 25%.  Probably closer to 33%.  There is so much bullshit clogging up this narrative which, without it, could be good.  All of this backstory is like getting punched in the face and genitals, back and forth, over and over, for a week.  On paper, a woman writes back and forth to a girl and remembers her life.  But summary is telling me a host of garbage that I don’t need or care about. And what’s this random shit about some acceptance journey that doesn’t come to fruition? Wait, what in this story does come to fruition? Oh, not a goddamn thing.  Come on, bitches. EDIT. It’s your fucking job.

Anyway, from the looks of it this is the last story of the year.  Way to bookend this year with garbagio.  Next week I’m going to write a year in review.  I’m excited.  There may be some surprises.  Maybe not.  You’ll have to wait and see, you sonsabitches.

Nick