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Groovelord Neato posted:I don't understand how someone spends the time writing and writes nothing happening. The fun part of writing is when things happen. Agreed, but Goodkind’s writing (along with it’s other flaws) is a good example of the opposite problem of Jordan: when your writing is so sparse that it’s *nothing* but things happening in sequence. In many ways, fantasy stories live or die on immersive description. It can be overdone, but if you’re intending to immerse your reader into an exotic imaginary world, you need prose that feeds the senses as well as carry the story forward. LeGuin hits the sweet spot, Tolkien overdoes it a bit, Jordan overdoes it a LOT. There’s many authors who could pull off a minimalist style, like Hemingway or Murakami. But that only works because their stories were contemporary to their time, so most readers came to his work with at least a baseline of how his settings work. Minimalist writing falls flat with most fantasy because you’re assuming a world where the setting and daily routines of life are so radically different, they need some detail to be relatable. Goodkind’s description of the physical setting is so sparse that it may as well all take place in a black box theater.
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.random posted:Perhaps a… Sensory deprivation theater, where you never know when - or where - the next delicious lick of the cat-o-nine-tails will land, always prepared but never truly ready to feel it rake across your nubile flesh, leaving trails of raw fire in its wake? You have come to a theater called Gor! *whip crack* … Knowing that Goodkind spoke in interviews in exactly the same way he wrote fiction, he probably saw elaborating your thoughts as “effeminate.” (The only permissible emotions for Randians are anger and disdain.)
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If Terry Goodkind were alive today, he’d be praising the atrocities in Ukraine.
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