the ardeur... six of one. I think everybody starts out thinking about writing and their characters that way but I was taught that it was a rookie mistake. I used to do it BDS.(Before David Simon) Now, well, it sucks but people die. I can deal with that more easily than the thought that someone I admire would think I write like a punk.
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Mar 18, 2006 4:22:20 pm PST #181 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Ginger - Mar 18, 2006 4:33:53 pm PST #182 of 28061
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
You know, if LKH had any online friends, they'd be telling her "Just walk away from the badfic, honey.
If she had any friends, they'd be telling her to take her meds. The early Anita Blake books must have been written before the voices started talking to her.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2006 6:39:06 pm PST #183 of 28061
brillig
I've begun wondering if Obsidian Butterfly was ghost written.
beth b - Mar 18, 2006 7:46:55 pm PST #184 of 28061
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
you know, connie you have a point. or she has some weird issue with sex. -- As long as she can't write about it , she does a decent story. As soon as she adds the sex- goodbye story.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2006 8:08:31 pm PST #185 of 28061
brillig
she has some weird issue with sex
Well, I think we all know that's true.
erikaj - Mar 19, 2006 10:23:19 am PST #186 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
The comparison to an overwrought ficcer is ever more appropriate.
Katerina Bee - Mar 20, 2006 9:35:03 am PST #187 of 28061
Herding cats for fun
Customer reviews for poor old LKH's latest effort are pretty damn amusing. "It's all Mary Sue and porn, and the story languishes."
That blog clip is just so pitifully self-indulgent. I think she and Anne Rice need to have tea and whinge about how the readers just don't understand their suffering and the Greatness of their Art.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2006 9:37:39 am PST #188 of 28061
If I only had a brain...
Oh, dear, oh, dear... From the Amazon reviews: Admittedly, Hamilton DOES try to give Micah new dimensions as a character, by giving him a traumatic background. Unfortunately, this trauma is that his girlfriend dumped him because Micah's Magnificent Member was, uh, too big for her to handle. It will move readers to tears... of laughter. And you can only imagine how the Magnificent Member's, uh, size has an impact on the rather icky sex scene that follows. Although since they have been together for a year, it's not clear why the size is suddenly such a problem.
Consuela - Mar 20, 2006 9:49:55 am PST #189 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
ohdear.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2006 10:05:44 am PST #190 of 28061
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, dear, oh, dear... From the Amazon reviews:
And it is precisely the amusing trainwreck you would predict from those reviews. I made an off-hand comment to one of my co-workers about reading vampire novels; the next day she loaned me Micah. I read it on the bus ride home, and couldn't stop rolling my eyes and snickering.