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This board has a lot of tendencies that discourage quality posting, such as bashing high-effort posts like this one, stalking/f***ing with people when they share stories from their personal lives like that hot TA thread and many others.

I got a really nice reaction for this story in a different medium (and of course with people that know me personally) and I am glad a handful of people here enjoyed it too.

I didn't write it for this audience but decided after the fact to share it here as well to add a little content to the suque. I would be curious to know how people would write it differently but I personally think the style I picked out of many available worked for this story. Why people would log-in just to post negative comments in a thread like this though is hard to figure out - don't get the point.

WTF did I just read? Who talks/writes like that? The main character in the story sounds like a real winner.

I think the problem was that most of us didn't know wtf we were reading: an actual experience of yours, a short story you wrote, something you copied from another board, a parody post, or something else. The writing style combined with the fact that I don't think anybody knew you were in Peru made us think, "ummm...what is this supposed to be?"

Thanks for sharing, though.

It was a boring story that took forever to go nowhere.

Decent story. Condensing or removing the accent nonsense could have made it much better.

It wasnt a bad story, but it kind of appeared out of nowhere and I don't think any of us know you well enough or have any clue why you were there in the first place. It all just seemed so completely random and devoid of context.

Yeah makes sense actually.

The other medium was facebook, which obviously is filled with all my personal friends who know I am in South America.

I guess I didn't feel like typing up a "Hey guys, I'm in Peru and this is what happened to me last night" type sentence.

If people are real writers I would love to hear some constructive criticism but I don't see myself as a writer even as a hobbyist and I wrote this between 4 and 5 am on a mix of alcohol and adrenaline. I liked adding some literary flourish to this because it's fun to play with the English language and I don't get a chance to do so regularly because if I said this stuff outloud I'd sound like a douche. That's why I wrote it instead. As for the people just typing that it sucks or whatever, OK... You can back up your authority to comment on my writing skills with some sort of credential and then give me specific advice, but most people commenting are just being dicks. I didn't post this for my benefit or ego, just to add some entertainment. (If it were for my ego, I'd talk about the nights I kiss beautiful girls instead of getting scammed by plain ones).

The suque needs to lose it's high school popular-table, online circle jerk culture a little bit, but oh well, everyone wants to be important somewhere and if for you that is an internet message board, I'm not hating.

Here on the Writers Guild website, we have us some excruciatingly high standards.

But that´s my point. It´s fun to use colorful language instead of just plain speech, at least for me. That is part of the satisfaction in writing.

Unless you are Chuck Palahniuk or Jack Kerouac, your best writing is going to sound different than your speech.

Keep em coming cp, the suque needs more stories.

Tough lost for us

I stopped reading after this sentence. I don't want to read about you "turning the tables" on some Peruvian dude.