THE GREAT EGO STROKE

No, this isn't about MY ego. LOL. Mine is rather large and doesn't require stroking.

It's about a phenomenon I've seen plenty of, but have just had another experience with, and it galls me.

Writers that use imaginary, or at least un-verifiable 'credits' to appear bigger than what they are. Now notice here that I didn't say authors, because by and large many of these writers have never had anything actually published. They just want others to think they have.

I joined a small, cozy group just recently, and realized after awhile what the leader was doing. Not to me--been around that block a time or two on the horse I rode in on... and the horse is tired. Several newer writers however considered this 'big-timer' with great awe, and reverence. Okay, whatever. Maybe they really were as big time as they were saying they were... little red flags of impossible verification were popping up, but oh well, no skin off my nose, I couldn't care less if they did, or didn't do the things they said. Then one day in a live chat they said something that was so blatently obvious (to someone who knows it couldn't/wouldn't/never has happened).

Why do people feel the need to do this? Eventually their big mouth is going to spout off something someone is going to instantly know is wrong, and they will be 'outted'. So why do it?

I just wish these writers would understand it's not necessary to have bukuu credits, and glamorous backgrounds in order to have commrades in this silly game of writing.

Then again, if commrades is not what they want... but devotees, and worshipers... that's a different thing altogether, and they had better go about getting those real credits that can be verified.