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pentyne posted:I guess book three would take longer if he was writing it one-handed. I loathe ambidextrous assholes.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 05:44 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:It's like Tommy Boy only instead of being a goofy lovable idiot who sells brake pads he's a a lucky hack who convinced a bunch of idiots that his garbage novel is good My favorite part is how he convinced the publisher to publish it by selling it as "fully completed trilogy and just needs editting" and they apparently took him at his word sight unseen (presumably because he's buddies with high muckity mucks) so there'd be no need for a seven year wait between books and then oops it turns out that he lied and only part of it was complete so he dropped in a bunch of other short stories with minimal editting and called the first book good. He pretty much did the same with the second book too.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 14:47 |
Rothfarts blog brings the heat.quote:Brandon Starkerson quote:scott lynchester quote:Ozweepay Johnson
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:54 |
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Rothfarts blog brings the heat. It turns out that interest dwindles as time goes on.
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 16:21 |
Like Rothfuss could actually finish this shitpile in a satisfying fashion.
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# ? Feb 1, 2020 19:58 |
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The best thing he's written was the Bast short story.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 00:04 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:The best thing he's written was the Bast short story. Is that available in any of the books?
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 07:23 |
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I think it was published in one of the GRRM-edited anthologies. The name Rogues rings a bell, although I don't remember ever reading it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 14:17 |
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I dispute this idea of a "best thing" written by Rothfuss.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 14:23 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I dispute this idea of a "best thing" written by Rothfuss. The least bad thing?
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 14:34 |
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My favorite Rothfuss thing is the author's intro to Slow Regard of Silent Things. It needs to be chiseled into stone. Look upon the cringe, ye mighty, and despair.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 17:10 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I dispute this idea of a "best thing" written by Rothfuss. It was a bad thing in three parts.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 17:56 |
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BananaNutkins posted:My favorite Rothfuss thing is the author's intro to Slow Regard of Silent Things. It needs to be chiseled into stone. Look upon the cringe, ye mighty, and despair. Never read it, but that's where he basically says "if you don't like this then you're a simpleton who can't appreciate what I'm doing" right?
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 22:57 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Never read it, but that's where he basically says "if you don't like this then you're a simpleton who can't appreciate what I'm doing" right? Pretty much.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 23:06 |
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God that's like when some shithead film director gets mad that critics dunked all over their movie and audiences also didn't respond well to it. It's clearly the fault of the critics and everyone else was just too stupid to appreciate it. It couldn't possibly be because you cobbled together incomprehensible trash.
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 01:47 |
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the only rothfuss thing worth reading is the original character do not steal tom bombadil porn
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 02:39 |
Patrick Rothfuss Reviewing Doors of Stone on Goodreads in 2012 posted:
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 22:35 |
Captain Hotbutt posted:stuff that's gonna make me vomit i'm gonna vomit
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 22:44 |
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I think I hate him so so much.
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 22:53 |
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Rothfuss really embraces that dumb twee aesthetic doesn't he
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 23:14 |
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That couldn't be more masturbatory if he posted a video of himself jerking off.
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# ? Feb 5, 2020 23:47 |
i'm finally listening to that writing excuses episode because the phantom call was too much and he sure keeps mentioning things he thinks he's very good at
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 01:30 |
"this has been a fantastic episode on revision. we have shown you an excellent example of something that needs to be revised and an excellent example of what you sound like when you try to avoid revising it because you're too up your own rear end"
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 02:33 |
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let's dig into the fact that Rothfuss believes himself to be an excellent kisser deft with his lips as he is with a pen
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 04:04 |
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alas
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 05:54 |
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Relax Or DIE posted:let's dig into the fact that Rothfuss believes himself to be an excellent kisser I find this wildly difficult to believe, what with that scraggly-rear end beard of his.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 06:49 |
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Patware posted:"this has been a fantastic episode on revision. we have shown you an excellent example of something that needs to be revised and an excellent example of what you sound like when you try to avoid revising it because you're too up your own rear end" lol at Pat being good at revision. There's no way anyone would consider him good at revision after Wise Man's Fear where he just loving drops his original short story introducing Kvothe, which therefore has none of the framing gimmick that WMF has everywhere else and in fact is written in third person instead of first person and acts like Kvothe is some Mysterious Cool Dude and not the person whose head we have been in for a massive book and three-fourths by now. He literally did zero revisions and I'm guessing threw it in to pad the word count.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 08:13 |
in the podcast he mentions one of his techniques is to break a chapter into scenes (no poo poo?) and then break a scene into french scenes (wow it's almost like you're writing!) and then figure out the actual purpose of the scenes (at this stage in the game?) to make sure he's not being too useless for too long and he mentions having to cut something down because he wrote ten scenes in a row with their only purpose being quote "Shows that Kvothe is smart and cool."
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 08:39 |
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Patware posted:in the podcast he mentions one of his techniques is to break a chapter into scenes (no poo poo?) and then break a scene into french scenes (wow it's almost like you're writing!) and then figure out the actual purpose of the scenes (at this stage in the game?) to make sure he's not being too useless for too long my god it's full of stars
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 08:43 |
also pat rothfuss slowly explaining what french scenes were was extremely writing_excuses.wav
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 08:47 |
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Doctor Faustine posted:I find this wildly difficult to believe, what with that scraggly-rear end beard of his. I imagine nothing enhances an expert kiss like a steady rain of the crumbs of meals past onto your bosom
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 18:43 |
Please "Love confetti"
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:41 |
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Relax Or DIE posted:I imagine nothing enhances an expert kiss like a steady rain of the crumbs of meals past onto your bosom Not just food crumbs, but the man has prolific beard dandruff at both of the cons I've seen him at. I'm self conscious of it myself but it was a goddamned snowdrift on his t-shirt. Which was, of course, black with white text.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:48 |
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I don't see the problem. A starfield would complement JOSS WHEDON IS MY MASTER NOW nicely.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:51 |
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Patware posted:in the podcast he mentions one of his techniques is to break a chapter into scenes (no poo poo?) and then break a scene into french scenes (wow it's almost like you're writing!) and then figure out the actual purpose of the scenes (at this stage in the game?) to make sure he's not being too useless for too long But... that's literally the entire book.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:35 |
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what is a french scene
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 00:20 |
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if it's like a french kiss, i don't want it
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 00:20 |
hallelujah posted:what is a french scene A French scene is denoted by a character either entering or leaving mid-scene. Like say five people are in the room, one person leaves, that scene now contains two French scenes. If a pair of people then walk in some time later, you have three French scenes. Basically it's dividing scenes by the actual people on-scene than like changing time or place. I don't know the etymology of calling it a French scene and I've never met anyone who used the term in anything other than insider discussion about writing that wasn't really obnoxious.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 00:50 |
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Patware posted:A French scene is denoted by a character either entering or leaving mid-scene. Like say five people are in the room, one person leaves, that scene now contains two French scenes. If a pair of people then walk in some time later, you have three French scenes.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 01:48 |
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# ? Jun 13, 2024 06:40 |
I don't have anything published (mostly because I don't think I'm good enough) but I've been writing mostly in collaborative workshops since like 2001 - the French scene concept is a pretty important one to learn early on but someone as good as Rothfuss says he is should no longer have to sit back and break his poo poo apart into French scenes to see if he has to change things - he should already be way past the point where he has to figure out why characters are entering and exiting scenes, that kind of thing should just be muscle memory. Of course, that's if Rothfuss were as good as he thinks he is. He's definitely still at the point (and will likely never evolve past) having to fine-tooth comb everything he's done and strip down useless fat because he's not writing to a narrative, he's writing to pure wish fulfillment power fantasy. Breaking through that barrier is one of the most important things to get through. The story is far more important than any one character, but to Rothfuss, Kvothe is the story, so his world is stale and dead unless Kvothe is in the area reacting to it. Nothing else is alive.
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