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by steve
January 7th, 2011, 1:47 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Favourite characters' names?
Replies: 43
Views: 17502

Re: Favourite characters' names?

Mike Fallopian (from THE CRYING OF LOT 49), J.A.K. Gladney (from WHITE NOISE) and Cthulhu (from HPL of course) are great, stupid names.
by steve
January 5th, 2011, 11:24 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Max word count for infodumps
Replies: 23
Views: 5916

Re: Max word count for infodumps

Guardian wrote:
Say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
That's a good advice. Thanks Steve.
Not mine; DH Lawrence said it. He was right about most everything.
by steve
January 5th, 2011, 10:41 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Max word count for infodumps
Replies: 23
Views: 5916

Re: Max word count for infodumps

So my question is, what is making an infodump to a true infodump and is there any true rules regarding it, max word count and anything else what I should keep in my mind? Logorrhoea is an affliction; readers will notice it. I'm a big fan of Steven Millhauser's short stories, but loathed his "M...
by steve
January 4th, 2011, 7:23 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 528
Views: 308491

Re: What are you reading now?

THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING by T.H. White
by steve
January 4th, 2011, 6:59 pm
Forum: Self-Publishing
Topic: Huck Finn Gets Some Changes
Replies: 17
Views: 8283

Re: Huck Finn Gets Some Changes

lmjackson wrote: Thoughts?
Just one: everyone involved in this effort is an idiot.
by steve
January 4th, 2011, 1:17 am
Forum: Books
Topic: Why we love bad writing
Replies: 20
Views: 10169

Re: Why we love bad writing

The Elements of Clunk Four years ago, I wrote an essay for The Chronicle Review cataloging "The Seven Deadly Sins of Student Writers"—the errors and infelicities that cropped up most frequently in my students' work. Since then a whole new strain of bad writing has come to the fore, not on...
by steve
December 31st, 2010, 1:27 pm
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: Happy New Year Everyone
Replies: 13
Views: 4897

Re: Happy New Year Everyone

Happy New Year!
by steve
December 31st, 2010, 11:57 am
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818854

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

One here on prose, and another here on good/bad writers.
by steve
December 29th, 2010, 11:36 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Links to good free ebooks
Replies: 0
Views: 875

Links to good free ebooks

Post links here to good free ebooks. These should be ebooks that are part of Creative Commons licenses, or books made free by publishers. Don't post your own book or any old public domain book. Here's a good one to start: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING - this is the first book of Anthony Powell's 12 volum...
by steve
December 29th, 2010, 9:18 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Start the story somewhere else...
Replies: 43
Views: 17905

Re: Start the story somewhere else...

Do some research and find Hemingway's original first chapter for THE SUN ALSO RISES. It's a good chapter, makes sense, but isn't as weird or ambiguous as the first chapter in the published book. He made the right choice cutting it. I'd rather read something odd to start a book than something germane.
by steve
December 29th, 2010, 11:12 am
Forum: Self-Publishing
Topic: JA Konrath
Replies: 32
Views: 11201

Re: JA Konrath

Another one from Joe; he must be on a caffeine-high this week:

You should self-publish
by steve
December 29th, 2010, 11:07 am
Forum: Books
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 528
Views: 308491

Re: What are you reading now?

LEVITATION by Cynthia Ozick.