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Gravity Cant Apple posted:People hate Peggy Hill? Maybe it's because King of the Hill was before the internet got so big but I never knew there was a large backlash against her. Skylar's an even worse example of sexism because she wasn't behaving badly due to trauma, she's literally the most sensible and morally good person on the entire show. She's the best person on there and people hated her for it. And the actress.
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Looks like WiS is going on.... right now. https://twitter.com/erikson_steven/status/1438986047413571587
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Sep 17, 2021 23:06
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I wish he'd just abandon it instead
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coathat posted:I wish he'd just abandon it instead He's rich enough he does what he wants. He posted on his facebook about what people thought of the trilogy and a lot of people were like "meh" and he responded that made him sad, but he was doing it anyway.
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kingturnip posted:Unless he has some weird maybe he only wrote the title lol
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Sep 18, 2021 10:33
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Compatibility mode? is he writing this into a .doc file? Unending degeneracy
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Serak posted:Compatibility mode? is he writing this into a .doc file? It's microsoft word, in compatability mode, and says "saved to my Mac". So yea, big cursed energy.
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Sep 19, 2021 09:46
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Isnt he the author who wrote a book on some old rear end palm pilot like device?
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He is. And I like how you optimistically implied he's the only one.
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Sep 19, 2021 14:54
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I am the weird person who likes the Kharkanas books.
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I really dig Hood and Draconus and I want to read more about them
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I wouldn't put it past Erikson to have the fight between Draconus and Anomander be told exclusively by Kadaspala. And then write a deaf/Deaf character into the story purely so that they can be the person reporting on some sort of pivotal conversation between Hood and K'rul.
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Sep 19, 2021 20:51
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Hood's army sets off to make war on death and are never seen or heard from again.
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At the end of the book the narrator will admit they made up the whole trilogy and it's still not the true story of what actually happened.
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Sep 19, 2021 21:39
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It was all a dream. Probably Kruppe's.
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I don’t see how the last book can wrap up everything that people want to see in the prequel. Like, unless I’ve just totally forgotten things, no one has even become a dragon yet and the Tiste Edur aren’t even a separate faction yet. I don’t see how all that and everything related to Draconus’ kid, Hood and Dark, Shadow and Light becoming warrens can all happen.
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Ethiser posted:I don’t see how the last book can wrap up everything that people want to see in the prequel. Like, unless I’ve just totally forgotten things, no one has even become a dragon yet and the Tiste Edur aren’t even a separate faction yet. I don’t see how all that and everything related to Draconus’ kid, Hood and Dark, Shadow and Light becoming warrens can all happen. He won't. He just wrote a book about a fan favorite character where that character doesn't even appear. Dude does what he wants.
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tbh I dunno how he managed to publish any books, let alone millions of words of them. https://twitter.com/erikson_steven/status/1440458702729846788?s=19
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dwarf74 posted:tbh I dunno how he managed to publish any books, let alone millions of words of them. Didn't he lose the entirity of Memories of Ice back in the day? It was meant to be the second book iirc.
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I will never understand people who write something that large and important to them who don't make backup saves in safe locations.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Didn't he lose the entirity of Memories of Ice back in the day? It was meant to be the second book iirc. I think I remember him saying he believed that that turned out to have some serendipitous benefit, as Deadhouse Gates got readers used to his leaping around settings and characters very early in the series. Must have been soul crushing for him at the time, though, to lose a completed manuscript. Save and back up regularly, authors. 
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Khizan posted:I will never understand people who write something that large and important to them who don't make backup saves in safe locations. his backup strategy is a photograph of every page saved to icloud/google photos 
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Hahahahahahaha holy poo poo what is up with Fantasy authors. IIRC grrm uses a monocrhome word processor that's older than most of the posters in this thread. Also Erikson famously doesn't reread anything he's written after it's published, he just hopes his bad notes are accurate for continuity.
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Jaxyon posted:
I herad about an interview where someone asked him about Kettle's father, and his response was along the lines of "uhhh I definitely knew at the time I wrote it....."
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Clark Nova posted:his backup strategy is a photograph of every page saved to icloud/google photos And somehow this is easier than copy/paste the word doc to another harddrive, or email to himself or his editor.
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Doesn't Word have versioning? I mean.....
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Word 2003 doesn't. Which I bet is what he uses because he's cool as gently caress
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Clark Nova posted:his backup strategy is a photograph of every page saved to icloud/google photos Ah, so if he gets hacked he's trying to prevent leaks by making it so annoying no thinking human being would ever go to the effort of reading them.
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Hand Row posted:Isnt he the author who wrote a book on some old rear end palm pilot like device?  Steven Erikson posted:Twenty years ago I bought this Psion 5mx. It had a monochrome, touch-senstive screen (with stylus), used two AA batteries that lasted about thirty hours, with an external memory via the flash-drive. Probably the smallest commercial word processor ever built. I wrote the entirety of Deadhouse Gates on this little guy. And he's still at it:  Also his screenshots all show versions of Word that are way later than 2003 so he probably has an Office 365 subscription
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lol that owns. I weep for his eyesight and hands.
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Ha, my liking for Erikson has grown further at reading that. Psions rocked and they were indeed ahead of their time. The keyboard of the Series 5 was good enough to type decent amounts of prose on, especially for a device that could comfortably fit in a pocket. Useful for an author who may want to write at random times without lugging something larger around. Which is why I never bought a Series 7, actually (it wasn't pocket-sized, not because I'm an author). From the picture with the Tales of Karsa screenshot, it looks like he's now bought a Gemini PDA, which is kind of a modernised version of the Psion Series 5, and which I looked at myself by couldn't quite bring myself to get. Gotta respect Erikson's commitment to the form factor. Needs to back his poo poo up though, which I was doing with my Psions even back in the '90s.
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Gravity Cant Apple posted:
That's an interesting combo - reMarkable and a phone with small external keyboard?
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He was also releasing a handwritten page of the next Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella each day on facebook to entertain people during the early part of the pandemic.
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He also talks on the last 10 Very Big Books about writing a whodunit with a Midsomer Murders-style vibe set in the Malazan world. Which sounds hilarious.
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It was Shadowthrone with the Dancer in the Azath.
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kingturnip posted:He also talks on the last 10 Very Big Books about writing a whodunit with a Midsomer Murders-style vibe set in the Malazan world. As it happens, I'm just watching Midsomer Murders and it perfectly fits Malazan insofar as at the end half the population is dead.
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My partner is a massive Malazan fan and wants me to read them. I made it through Gardens of the Moon and a third through Deadhouse Gates and... I just can't do it. I have a degree in literature and the Malazan books are among the hardest I've come across. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out why i can strain to read ten pages and then realize I've retained nothing, and I'm at a loss other than "I have no idea why this scene happened". You have to trust that the story is going somewhere because Erikson certainly isn't going to suggest that this random event served a purpose until 80 pages later. Someone like, say, the structured Iain Banks or experimental Kathe Koja, will start a book with letting you know what the stakes are, what the conflict is, and every scene somehow applies to either confirming the stakes or moving forward with the conflict. Erikson doesn't do that - here's a scene of a character wandering off for the fifth time and he does a thing that doesn't seem related to anything, but MAYBE it will be later. Next scene. It's bizarre and I've never seen anyone else do this, at least not on purpose. I've read all the Bauchelain and Korbal novellas and enjoyed them, mainly because A. They're short and B. The stakes are clearly set immediately - 'We need to kill this guy', or 'We need to reach this place without dying' and the rest of the story is all heading to the goal. Most detours are for setting and also entertaining (Lees of Laughter's End was a trip and a half). I'm not saying this is bad, it's just surprising to me how much scene direction matters in order to retain any of it. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I think that yes I've noticed it but I personally like it, even though it's dumb in a lot of ways. The scenes that are a someone just walking away that has nothing to do with anything, maybe, are endearing to me personally but I can totally see how they also are just wasteful trash words to someone else. I love how it's not set up at the beginning and how nothing makes sense at the start, but if it's not for you it's not for you and there's nothing wrong with that.
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