I’m still processing this one and don’t have much to add, but think this is worth reading [https://accordingtohoyt.com/2017/01/01/aspirational/] on The Room, over at Accordingtohoyt: > The point is that his move is pretty d*mn depressing. The main character is being cheated on by his fiance and best friend, has just been fired, and (no, trust me, it’s not a spoiler) ends up killing himself (I almost typed itself. You’d have to see it to understand.) BUT the thing is that through all the movi…
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Larry Correia, the mountain that walks, the International Lord of Hate of the Evil Legion of Evil, and Sad Puppy One, takes a break from vacation to respond to someone being stupid on the internet [http://monsterhunternation.com/2016/12/30/fisking-the-huffpos-snooty-rant-about-self-publishing/] . And since it is the Huffington Post, it is very, very stupid indeed. An excerpt (but please, read the whole thing. The only people who write as prolifically are Johns, Wright and Ringo): > Writing is h…
One of the reasons I will effectively drop anything and everything to read a book by Larry Correia, aka the “International Lord of Hate”, is that he not only is nearly as prolific as John Ringo, but is, if possible, even funnier when he goes off on a rant. Given the high bar needed to exceed the utterly inspired Ravencon AAR [https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2016/12/RavenCon202006.pdf], that is saying something. So, in part due to slow blogging activity over at Monster Hunter Nation,…
One of my favorite, ever,podcasts used to be the – at the time well deserved for its nomination – formerly excellent Writing Excuses. I absolutely loved it. I recommended it to teachers who taught writing, I recommended it to friends who loved analyzing books and movies. I talked it up far and wide for in breaking down the art of telling a science fiction or fantasy story, most of the material applied to the art of telling stories in general. The founders were Dan Wells, a good if then tyro wr…
Vox Day notes [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/12/of-irony-and-libel.html] that he’s the subject of an article at the Black Gate [https://www.blackgate.com/2016/12/07/unempathic-bipeds-of-failure-the-relationship-between-stories-and-politics/] that calls him a neo-nazi. He’s more than adequately capable of defending himself, and certainly has a horde of minions that are capable of assisting him. No, I actually want to address two other things she wrote, two underlying assumptions that show bo…