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Don't confuse knowledge with caring! Huge amount of women writing fanfic, from their mid twenties to late thirties, and lot of whom have kids.
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neongrey posted:Don't confuse knowledge with caring! Huge amount of women writing fanfic, from their mid twenties to late thirties, and lot of whom have kids. Yeah but the 35 year olds are generally good (or at least better) at it because they've been writing since they were dumb teens waxing rhapsodic about emerald orbs and bluenette hair. Speaking of fanfic, everyone knows that the author of My Immortal was revealed the other week, right? quote:In the early 2000s, Rose Christo was separated from her five-year-old brother and shuttled between foster homes in Brooklyn to the Bronx and back again. Desperate to be reunited with her sibling, she traveled the five boroughs, unable to find any trace of him, as New York State’s child care agencies failed to help her time and again.
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 07:49 |
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Brass Key posted:Yeah but the 35 year olds are generally good (or at least better) at it because they've been writing since they were dumb teens waxing rhapsodic about emerald orbs and bluenette hair. Ahahahaahahaahahahaahahaahahahahaahahahaahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahahahahaahahahahaaha I wish. I've had to do a ton of smiling and nodding.
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 07:57 |
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Last Thursday? How did I miss that?
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 07:57 |
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Sandra Hill posted:“As Hilda’s buttermilk bosoms squished up against his granite abs, Torolf almost had a dick aneurysm.” She's written a ton of stuff and I'm tempted to see if it's all this funny, but the prices are just slightly above my limit for something I expect to be bad. Those quotes are brilliant though.
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 09:46 |
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Tiggum posted:She's written a ton of stuff and I'm tempted to see if it's all this funny, but the prices are just slightly above my limit for something I expect to be bad. Those quotes are brilliant though.
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 10:24 |
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SiKboy posted:There is no loving way anyone writes "Torolf entered her like she was a lottery." in a supposedly erotic context and expects it to be taken seriously, that has to be a parody. And “Her body was like a beautiful flower that was opening and somebody was pushing their dick inside it.” is quite literally one of the funniest things I've read, possibly ever. Yeah, there's a bunch of other obviously joke lines (from memory, "the sound of Torolf's abs galloping into the distance" decided it for me) such that it must be a parody. albeit an astonishingly extended one. What's her other work look like?
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 10:30 |
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Brass Key posted:Yeah but the 35 year olds are generally good (or at least better) at it because they've been writing since they were dumb teens waxing rhapsodic about emerald orbs and bluenette hair. Its totally possible to do the same thing over and over for years and not get any better at it, especially if you absolutely refuse to take on board any negative feedback or criticism, and only really deal with an echo chamber of people who reinforce the exact thing you are doing.
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 16:43 |
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Also communities shape norms. Stories you write tend to resemble the kinds of stories you're reading. If all you're consuming is bad fanfic, you're going to pick up a lot of those habits. Its why trying to read older novels from pre 1900 can be rough for a modern reader. The norms are incredibly different and it scans completely 'wrong' compared to more modern novel. Or why various genre fiction tends to develop weird or bad trends
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 17:17 |
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Tiggum posted:She's written a ton of stuff and I'm tempted to see if it's all this funny, but the prices are just slightly above my limit for something I expect to be bad. Those quotes are brilliant though. A public library should have it. My podunk one does--and in large print no less.
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 17:42 |
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SiKboy posted:Its totally possible to do the same thing over and over for years and not get any better at it
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 19:55 |
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The_White_Crane posted:Yeah. It's much easier to take the piss out of M'tar-qlzt, WARRIOUR OF ŢARN and his dwarven gunchucks (they're two guns joined together with a length of chain, you see) I'm extremely disappointed that "dwarven gunchucks" isn't two dwarves with guns joined together with a length of chain
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# ? Sep 12, 2017 20:59 |
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Update on THE BEAR KINGDOM TRILOGY: BOOK ONE: THE HOWLING TOWER: I downloaded it onto my Kindle, and left it in the living room while I slept. My roommate read the whole thing while I was in bed, and says it is "really bad." This bodes well!
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Charles and Sarah are a typical New York creative class couple -- he's in finance, she works at a hipster small press, yet both are indie-rock East Village veterans who aren't above snorting a little heroin on the weekends. But when they decide to take the logical next step and buy a condo in one of the glass-and-steel skyscrapers now dotting the waterfront of Williamsburg, their lives start to fall apart almost the moment after they sign their mortgage; and this is to say nothing of their creepy neighbors, their possibly haunted apartment, job crises in both their industries, and former friends still in Manhattan who are determined to pull them back into the debauchery. A touching ode to the a--holes ruining Brooklyn, this literary debut of "the Snake Person John Updike" is a funny yet wistful dramedy about young urban life during the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks, and you do not need to be a New Yorker yourself to enjoy his smart insights about city living and growing older...although that certainly doesn't hurt. I'm confident I speak for all New Yorkers when I say: gently caress Charles and Sarah. Also: *Snorting* heroin?
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Charles and Sarah are a typical New York creative class couple -- he's in finance, she works at a hipster small press, yet both are indie-rock East Village veterans who aren't above snorting a little heroin on the weekends. But when they decide to take the logical next step and buy a condo in one of the glass-and-steel skyscrapers now dotting the waterfront of Williamsburg, their lives start to fall apart almost the moment after they sign their mortgage; and this is to say nothing of their creepy neighbors, their possibly haunted apartment, job crises in both their industries, and former friends still in Manhattan who are determined to pull them back into the debauchery. A touching ode to the a--holes ruining Brooklyn, this literary debut of "the Millennial John Updike" is a funny yet wistful dramedy about young urban life during the Great Recession, and you do not need to be a New Yorker yourself to enjoy his smart insights about city living and growing older...although that certainly doesn't hurt. ... is this from a real book?
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:28 |
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lifg posted:... is this from a real book? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015NFI1UW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Never mind the avatar, I told a guy he shouldn't call things "retarded" and he got very cross with me
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:37 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015NFI1UW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 what a retard
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:47 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015NFI1UW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Oh my god I love this review. certainly not the author's writing group buddy posted:The writing in this book, on a sentence by sentence level, is superb and beautiful and really carries the weight of the novel. The characters, sketches of malaise-filled Millenials, are complex and dark, filled with the deep problems of purposelessness. I felt refreshed by the writing, despite the Kafkaesque, yet quotidian nature of the story.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:37 |
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But is there avocado toast?
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:53 |
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quote:★★★★☆ Daniel Falatko's debut novel is a compelling and disturbing read ... ed: "Gordon Gecko"
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:49 |
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"totemic luxury kitchen appliances"
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:51 |
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someone awful. posted:"totemic luxury kitchen appliances" These penis euphemisms are getting out of hand!
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:55 |
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lifg posted:Oh my god I love this review. quote:...despite the Kafkaesque, yet quotidian nature of the...
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:58 |
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https://www.amazon.com/Preacher-Mountain-Caesar-William-Johnstone/dp/0821751441 Preacher and the Mountain Cesar. I'd read some of the other preacher books and they are decent western romps. Nothing too challenging. So I picked this up for free, and paid way too much for it. This one though suffers from "post herbert dune" syndrome. Features an incestual hillbilly family, and a crazy guy who thinks the best place to rebuild Rome is in the middle of the mountains. Like straight down to gladiator games, and his 12 year old son is a sadist who gets off on people dying. Like actually gets off. As a12 year old. I literally could not stop reading it because every page just got worse.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:58 |
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AA is for Quitters posted:https://www.amazon.com/Preacher-Mountain-Caesar-William-Johnstone/dp/0821751441 Thank you for your...input?
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 04:53 |
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Jew it to it! posted:Thank you for your...input?
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:34 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:What a weirdo, posting a terrible book in the terrible book thread. this is man who gets angry when Ready Player One and The Dresden Files are attacked in this thread
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:37 |
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queserasera posted:A public library should have it. My podunk one does--and in large print no less. The local library here is basically worthless when it comes to fiction. They do have some, but it's a really small selection and I've never found anything I was actually looking for there.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 08:15 |
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I'm confident I speak for all New Yorkers when I say: gently caress Charles and Sarah. yeah people do, but it's kinda a bit passe. I read a book about the pro surfer, Michael Peterson, and it goes into pretty deep detail about how he was a huge heroin addict, but petrified of needles - so he'd 'litres of the stuff' off of plates . well why not has a new favorite as of 10:00 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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Andy Warhol always insisted he never did cocaine. ...because he would dip his finger in it and rub it on his gums and that's not how you do cocaine.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 21:46 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:That's the only product review by this user. This feels like something Patrick Bateman would write.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 22:47 |
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a magical moment in the book barnHIJK posted:I can understand wanting cheap hackery, I used to watch Stargate SG1 religiously. There's nothing wrong with liking that stuff...what baffles me is how people delude themselves into thinking Rothfuss or people like him are good writers. Because they're not. I had an ex boyfriend who recommended the Rothfuss books to me and he got genuinely angry when I told him I wasn't very enthused about the story because the prose was bad. He was convinced Rothfuss was a fantastic writer and he was absolutely furious when I didn't agree. HIJK posted:He cited Rothfuss as one of the reasons he was breaking up with me. I haven't lost any sleep over him.
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 03:20 |
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Alaois posted:this is man who gets angry when Ready Player One and The Dresden Files are attacked in this thread Thank you, but I had previously ripped Ready Player One and quoted passages as emphasis. We have all purchased books we end up regretting. Ebooks just makes it easier to quote from our past mistakes. Another example was the book Dinosaur Knights, which I had hope for and had read the author's previous works as a teenager. Pretty cover, great praise for it, (Even from GRR Martin!), but it had little content other than lots of Dinosaur poo poo, piss and snot. But thanks for misrepresenting me.
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 04:46 |
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Jew it to it! posted:Thank you, but I had previously ripped Ready Player One and quoted passages as emphasis. You know we're all capable of clicking "show only posts by user," right? Let's not be too ridiculous with our falsehoods.
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 04:51 |
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PJOmega posted:You know we're all capable of clicking "show only posts by user," right? Let's not be too ridiculous with our falsehoods. quote:Wheat Loaf posted: Jew It To It! posted:Let me check my copy...I am still pissed I paid for this. This is praising Ready Player One? Oh, wait, I was pissed that I paid for it, I therefore must defend it. Ninurta has a new favorite as of 05:00 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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Jew it to it! posted:Thank you, but I had previously ripped Ready Player One and quoted passages as emphasis. christ you're a baby
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 05:03 |
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Alaois posted:christ you're a baby Thanks for the reply.
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 05:10 |
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Jew it to it! posted:This is praising Ready Player One? Oh, wait, I was pissed that I paid for it, I therefore must defend it. Hint, scroll to your first post. You know, the one you where you got upset about RPO and Dresden Files being criticized. Seriously, this disingenuous little snit in't even entertaining as a meltdown. Now, if you want to go full meltdown and entertain us for a page by all means go for it. Threads in a bit of a lull.
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 05:22 |
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PJOmega posted:Hint, scroll to your first post. You know, the one you where you got upset about RPO and Dresden Files being criticized. Seriously, this disingenuous little snit in't even entertaining as a meltdown. I like the Dresden Files. I do not like Ready Player One. Simple enough?
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 05:23 |
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Jew it to it! posted:I like the Dresden Files. I do not like Ready Player One. Simple enough? So you're saying this... Alaois posted:this is man who gets angry when Ready Player One and The Dresden Files are attacked in this thread Is an inaccurate representation of this... Jew it to it! posted:gently caress you and your poo poo opinions. When someone attacked Ready Player One and Dresden Files in this thread. C'mon champ, you're hopefully better than this.
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