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I'd be okay with YA if more authors were as openly and unashamedly in it for the money as R. L. Stine isR. L. Stine posted:“I always hate when people go to a school and they talk to kids about writing and they say, ‘Write what you know, write your passion, write from your heart.’ That just means those kids will never write again,” Stine says. “Because what does that mean? That doesn’t mean anything! I’ve written over 330 books — not one of them came from my heart. Not one! They were all written for an audience, they were written to entertain. That’s one thing I want to get across. But the main thing is, I just want to say if you do these things, don’t listen to people who say that writing is hard work! It’s not hard work, don’t listen to them.”
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"Lovecraft named a cat in one of his stories after his real life cat!"  "The cat's name is friend of the family-Man!" 
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if only he'd had the good taste to not write any of it down
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Ccs posted:a compelling reason as to why all of these critics are wasting their time porfiria posted:it has time traveling cyborgs and flying saucers and laserguns
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Jul 14, 2018 01:24
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fez_machine posted:HMMMMMMMMMMM, I wonder why? shocked to see renowned moral authority marion zimmer bradley on the "remain" list smdh
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Jul 20, 2018 14:47
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Mel Mudkiper posted:no seriously who are these people  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley#Child_sex_abuse_allegations
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Jul 20, 2018 15:38
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Stuporstar posted:Serious answer: he was a pulp-era hack who was grandfathered into the SF New Wave in the 60s because he wrote trippy poo poo with sex in it. Abstruse prose is not the same as "literary," particularly when it sounds like a 13 year old with no attention span trying to fill up his creative writing class notebook. Even Alfred Bester damned him with faint praise when he classified Farmer as an Idea Guy, not a good writer. It's great when you're 18 and fresh off "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" but apart from that yeah pretty much
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Jul 24, 2018 01:27
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Mel Mudkiper posted:
See also: "video games as art"
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Jul 24, 2018 20:05
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honestly i probably wouldnt give a poo poo about rothfuss and think he was just another lame fantasy writer if it weren't for his unbelievably smug blog posts isn't he also the one that was like "my editors are allowed to the story but not my prose because i have mastered the craft"?
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Aug 18, 2018 23:28
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BananaNutkins posted:Problem is, he doesnt like anything no he just posts about stuff he doesn't like because it's more interesting (also he did like Gormenghast)
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Nov 13, 2018 00:52
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i'm begging you people to just read actual medieval literature instead of this poo poo or poo poo even Herodotus' Histories reads like one of these fantasy doorstoppers except it actually happened (maybe)
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Nov 19, 2018 20:00
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idk what translation that is but i have the robin waterfield one (oxford world classics) and it's a pretty breezy read honestly
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Nov 20, 2018 01:37
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Schwarzwald posted:The writing is definitely clunky in parts, and it suffers more than a little from leaning on the ubiquity of certain technologies that have since vanished (forget "tuned to a dead channel," there's a spine-chilling scene later on involving a row of payphones). The actual cause and effect of the plot is poorly conveyed and the ultimate mystery of the story is one that you cannot figure out from the evidence. this is like saying Alien suffers because all the spaceships have old 70s-era computer interfaces in them
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Jan 8, 2019 20:54
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"Ready player one but good" already exists, it's called "zeroville"
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Jan 9, 2019 23:06
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obviously the pinnacle of 21st century serialized fiction is Homestuck
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Jan 28, 2019 22:46
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Jan 29, 2019 19:57
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proto-goons then
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Jan 29, 2019 22:02
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i personally despise Content and think the best posters to probate are the ones who produce it consistently. that is cool, to me
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Feb 5, 2019 05:53
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Worldbuilding as an end to itself without stories to populate it gave us No Man's Sky, a video game beloved by gamers everywhere
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Bilirubin posted:Let's assemble the TBB canon: Lincoln in the Bardo also e: doobie's doghouse menu Tim Burns Effect fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 19:32
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chernobyl kinsman posted:reminder that julia kristeva was a literal spy for the bulgarian KGB cool!!
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Feb 8, 2019 15:23
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Mrenda posted:Imagine thinking you need to have a villain in your story. doesn't have to be a person, the villain in "the grapes of wrath" was capitalism for instance
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Feb 9, 2019 19:29
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good to see an adaptation improve on the source material for once
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Feb 10, 2019 17:08
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:Nabokov strikes me more as a BYOB day crew type seems more GBS 1.0 to me although he may also have been the BotL of his day: http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
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Feb 11, 2019 13:15
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things like harry potter and star wars that were obviously made up as they went along are only made worse by their creators trying to pretend that they weren't after the fact and the fans that believe them. like say what you will about doctor who but at least the people who make it had the balls to say "we don't give a poo poo about 'canon' and never have"
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Feb 13, 2019 19:21
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lofi posted:He likes grinding, I guess. “It’s like Rick and Morty were the gods of Game of Thrones!” LitRPG posted:What is LitRPG you ask? Tim Burns Effect fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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Feb 21, 2019 17:53
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Nerdburger_Jansen posted:I read Borges' Library of Babel and he goes off explaining the geometrical structure of this weird loving series of stairwells, and I just groaned ugh worldbuilding. I would recommend "Jealousy" by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Feb 23, 2019 02:20
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yeah as long as it serves the narrative the more historical facts you can weave in the merrier imo
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Feb 23, 2019 02:36
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chernobyl kinsman posted:is Edith Finch good bc its on sale on PSN rn yes
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Feb 24, 2019 05:59
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man i was really into michael crichton books in middle school but uhhh im glad that one didnt exist yet lmao
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Feb 28, 2019 19:06
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:I report anime in the YOSPOS sci-fi thread as kind of a hobby, like pruning a bonsai lmao (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 1, 2019 06:22
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Neurosis posted:Thanks. I'll check out a couple of the essays - although I'm not sure about him being a 'luminary'; looking into it a bit it seems Gould had a garbage reputation among other academics in the field (I know academics get into turf wars all the time so some criticism being out there isn't surprising, but a few articles I scanned through seemed to suggest the negative opinion of Gould went far beyond ordinary academic cattiness). Nonetheless, his writing chops have been lauded frequently enough that something on an uncontroversial topic might be a pleasant read. Back when "New Atheism" was in its heyday in like 2008 i distinctly remember Gould being considered one of the bad guys because Richard Dawkins criticized him in The God Delusion and elsewhere and it just kind of filtered on down from there. He also had the audacity to say that evolutionary psychology is bunk and race science is bad
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Wheeee posted:, i think botl needs to be de-probed No way, then we'd actually have some actual content in this thread
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porfiria posted:
that's Finns for you
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