A blog for creatives of various creeds, crafts of all kinds, and ravenous book enjoyers. I'm a published poet under the name A. Riel Regan! a-rielregan.carrd.co Directory: redinkscrawl.tumblr.com/directory (WIP)
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anything u think about YOUR life after 10pm is bs to be ignored. anything u think about a characterâs life after 10pm should be posted about online and expanded on for paragraphs. :)
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If there's one broad critique I have of horny creature design, it's that novice worldbuilders often give their creatures too many fluids. Like, if the alien has magic piss, then focus on the magic piss â it probably doesn't also need magic spit and magic sweat and magic goo with no mammalian analogue. Practice economy of fluids.
I love it when period media about ancient cultures depicts the stonework in their architecture as very rounded and blobby in a way that makes it 100% clear that the designer was simply imitating the way it looks now. Like, what the fuck is erosion? Obviously it just started out that way.
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Itâs a mess here: someone looked your gift dark horse in the mouth, led it to water, and jumped back on it. Your ducks arenât in a row, someone counted the chickens before they hatched. Your geese are silly, your brown cows arenât explaining how, and every one of these sheep is a wolf but they donât even notice with the amount of wool over their eyes. Iâm fining you one million gold coins.
It's tricky to remember whether the phrase is "free reign" or "free rein" because they're both quite plausible when you think about the definitions. My new trick to solve this is to change it so the correct phrase is "free rain", that way you can remember it because it's the one that doesn't make any sense. Please let me know if you appreciate this idea before end of business today and I will add your endorsement to my letter to l'Academie Anglaise.
I don't want to alarm anyone, but it turns out that if you keep doing something for literal years, you....get better at it? Has anyone heard about this before?
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my creative writing prof also HATES fantasy. as in if she asks for an example of symbolism in a book, and you give something from a fantasy novel, sheâll ask for an example from a ânon-commercial bookâ instead.
I dunno man, people can have preferences, but the second you discount the artistic merit of sci fi and fantasy I stop taking your opinion seriously. and thereâs such a big culture in Canada of only valuing literary fiction, to the point where one of our biggest authors, Margaret Atwood, refused for a while to classify her books as sci fi or fantasy. she said they were âspeculative fictionâ, which is entirely separate and very highbrow (sarcasm).
and I could go on about how Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin wrote books every bit as intellectual (and honestly, even more so) than their literary counterparts, but I am also an enjoyer of schlock!! I think thereâs artistic merit in animorphs, and in isekais where a japanese schoolgirl reincarnates into a magical spider who has to level up like itâs a video game! itâs like with everything, you canât draw a clean line that separates âartâ from ânon-artâ or even âlesser artâ, and pretending you can do so just makes you look ignorant and goofy. in my opinion.
[interview with fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett]
O: Youâre quite a writer. Youâve a gift for language, youâre a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. Youâre so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?
Pratchett: I had a decent lunch, and Iâm feeling quite amiable. Thatâs why youâre still alive. I think youâd have to explain to me why youâve asked that question.
O: Itâs a rather ghettoized genre.
P: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every bookâ I think Iâve done twenty in the seriesâ since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. Iâve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.
O: Itâs certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.
P: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfireâ Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized itâ Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldnât have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrimâs Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply nowâ a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connectionsâ Thatâs fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.
Now I donât know what youâd consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I donât think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliverâs Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what youâre saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! Iâve got a serious novel. But you donât actually have to do that.
(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.
every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again