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Belated Wed Reading Meme
Apr. 30th, 2015 10:50 pm1. The Romance Reader's Guide to the Marvel Universe -- just too funny not to share. It's basically a run down of all of the comic book tv shows, films, and fanfic out there - that would grab a romance genre fan. And which characters, per romantic hero trope, would appeal to you.
Example? If you like Billionaire Bad Boys? - Iron Man
LOL! (Personally, I just like Robert Downy Jr.)
2. My Novel Update...there was a question in the marketing essentials questionaire, which asked what inspired me to write my novel. Not easy to answer - mainly because it's rather personal. But I thought I'd share my answer:
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Too often people will state that "the author is dead" or "authorial intent is unimportant". But I personally think, that's bullcrap. Or a fancy way of saying my opinion is the only thing that matters. It's not. Once you read a story -- the act of reading it, does not make it yours, any more than listening to someone tell a story makes it yours, or listening to a piece of music, or a song, or looking at a painting, or for that matter taking a photograph of a tree - makes it your tree. The tree had a reason for being there. The tree should be honored. It wasn't just there for you.
When I read a story, any story, I ask myself why did the writer write this, what did they want to say, and what is it they are attempting to convey or communicate. What is the dream they wish me to connect to or fall inside of? James Joyce said once that he wrote to connect, to find someone out there who got him, who understood. This forces me to not superimpose my own wants, experience, views upon it. Which I think, too often, happens. The story often gets lost in the reader's interpretation of it. The reader has gotten so caught up in their interpretation of the story or their experience, they've forgotten to listen and breath in the story being told.
3. Belated Wed Reading Meme
I was thinking about the above statement - regarding "the author is dead", while reading Goblin Emperor today, which, yes, I'm still reading. It's a rather dense book, with a lot of detail. The author, unlike most fantasy/sci-fi authors, actually has something to say. Although, she does ramble on a bit at times...dragging the story down. A vast majority of the genre novels that get published and are mass marketed, really are little more than bubblegum capers. You read them, you forget them. Oh, don't get me wrong, pulp is fun. I love pulp. Read a lot of it. But...well, some writers write to make a buck or just have fun or because they like communicating what they know in the strictly informative sense, while others write because well they feel driven to say something. Even if it is no more than -- look here, here I am, and this is...how I see the world at this point in time -- is there anyone out there who feels like this too?
Or as James Joyce put it - to connect to another like minded soul, who got him. To feel less alone.
( Read more... )
Example? If you like Billionaire Bad Boys? - Iron Man
LOL! (Personally, I just like Robert Downy Jr.)
2. My Novel Update...there was a question in the marketing essentials questionaire, which asked what inspired me to write my novel. Not easy to answer - mainly because it's rather personal. But I thought I'd share my answer:
( Read more... )
Too often people will state that "the author is dead" or "authorial intent is unimportant". But I personally think, that's bullcrap. Or a fancy way of saying my opinion is the only thing that matters. It's not. Once you read a story -- the act of reading it, does not make it yours, any more than listening to someone tell a story makes it yours, or listening to a piece of music, or a song, or looking at a painting, or for that matter taking a photograph of a tree - makes it your tree. The tree had a reason for being there. The tree should be honored. It wasn't just there for you.
When I read a story, any story, I ask myself why did the writer write this, what did they want to say, and what is it they are attempting to convey or communicate. What is the dream they wish me to connect to or fall inside of? James Joyce said once that he wrote to connect, to find someone out there who got him, who understood. This forces me to not superimpose my own wants, experience, views upon it. Which I think, too often, happens. The story often gets lost in the reader's interpretation of it. The reader has gotten so caught up in their interpretation of the story or their experience, they've forgotten to listen and breath in the story being told.
3. Belated Wed Reading Meme
I was thinking about the above statement - regarding "the author is dead", while reading Goblin Emperor today, which, yes, I'm still reading. It's a rather dense book, with a lot of detail. The author, unlike most fantasy/sci-fi authors, actually has something to say. Although, she does ramble on a bit at times...dragging the story down. A vast majority of the genre novels that get published and are mass marketed, really are little more than bubblegum capers. You read them, you forget them. Oh, don't get me wrong, pulp is fun. I love pulp. Read a lot of it. But...well, some writers write to make a buck or just have fun or because they like communicating what they know in the strictly informative sense, while others write because well they feel driven to say something. Even if it is no more than -- look here, here I am, and this is...how I see the world at this point in time -- is there anyone out there who feels like this too?
Or as James Joyce put it - to connect to another like minded soul, who got him. To feel less alone.
( Read more... )