Wow! What can I say? Thank you so very much! It was really good for me, hehe (lights a cigarrette and sighs peacefully)
I'm really trying to take into account all your advices while writing, and so far it seems I have managed to improve my storytelling a great deal, or so people tell me, and it's mainly because of the things I have read in this journal. I cannot thank you enough! Really!
All I can do is go buy as much Dresden and Codex Alera stuff as I can, as well as anything signed by you. (g) Hopefully that will be a good way to show my love.
One: It's always a happy present when I find one of your posts on my flist. Give me more presents.
Two: There's nothing worse than the literary blue-balls that you get from a story with a really bad climax, or, worse, none at all. I remember reading Kafka's Metamorphosis for the first time.
Okay, this ordinary guy wakes up as a roach. This could be interesting. His family abuses him, he retreats more into roachdom ... and then he dies.
No real climax. But then, I should've come to expect that from Russian literature, where the prevailing storyline is "the characters get shit on. Then they fall into a pit of sewage. Then they drown." Alas, I've found similarly dissatisfying endings in genre fiction, such as in James Blish's "A Case of Conscience." In both cases, they sent me away, frothing, at the end of the book, pissed at myself for investing time in such a worthless story, and determined not to read anything else by that author.
The bad climax was part of the point. I find that some books are like a steel rollercoasters (Ill use Riverside's Superman as an example) you wait in line for 1 hr, then you get slowly dragged up this incline to the highest point in the park, and then BAM an ejaculation of G-forces and then the ride is over.
Now some books are like the Cyclone (A wooden coaster), a 10 minute wait, you get put in a seat and slammed around (a lady broke her collar bone the last time I went on it.), its not as fast but still enjoyable if you're into it. But expect to be a lil bruised when it ends.
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Thank you so very much!
It was really good for me, hehe (lights a cigarrette and sighs peacefully)
I'm really trying to take into account all your advices while writing, and so far it seems I have managed to improve my storytelling a great deal, or so people tell me, and it's mainly because of the things I have read in this journal. I cannot thank you enough! Really!
All I can do is go buy as much Dresden and Codex Alera stuff as I can, as well as anything signed by you. (g) Hopefully that will be a good way to show my love.
Sincerely,
Keren from Mexico
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Two: There's nothing worse than the literary blue-balls that you get from a story with a really bad climax, or, worse, none at all. I remember reading Kafka's Metamorphosis for the first time.
Okay, this ordinary guy wakes up as a roach. This could be interesting. His family abuses him, he retreats more into roachdom ... and then he dies.
No real climax. But then, I should've come to expect that from Russian literature, where the prevailing storyline is "the characters get shit on. Then they fall into a pit of sewage. Then they drown." Alas, I've found similarly dissatisfying endings in genre fiction, such as in James Blish's "A Case of Conscience." In both cases, they sent me away, frothing, at the end of the book, pissed at myself for investing time in such a worthless story, and determined not to read anything else by that author.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
The bad climax was part of the point. I find that some books are like a steel rollercoasters (Ill use Riverside's Superman as an example) you wait in line for 1 hr, then you get slowly dragged up this incline to the highest point in the park, and then BAM an ejaculation of G-forces and then the ride is over.
Now some books are like the Cyclone (A wooden coaster), a 10 minute wait, you get put in a seat and slammed around (a lady broke her collar bone the last time I went on it.), its not as fast but still enjoyable if you're into it. But expect to be a lil bruised when it ends.
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