You must work out. How else would you manage to keep turning the pages of the book with all that high school ex-boyfriend baggage weighing you down?
Gosh, some of the female characters are prettier than average. I'll bet that every single person who writes like that probably has the exact same deep seated insecurity issues as me! My god, is there any chance that you're in the field of psychological counseling? Because there's evidently a bloody FORTUNE to be made on writers.
Harry carries a gun. And, as part of carrying a gun, he's made himself familiar enough with the weapon to make sure that he points the end the bullet comes out at whoever it is he wants to be dead. I can see now that it's been a total breech of author-reader contract for me not to have had Delta Force snap Dresden up ages ago for his marksmanship skills.
I could go on, but instead, allow me to pay my compliments on your outstanding evaluation of me personally based upon reading Storm Front.
Like all authors, I do so love it when someone starts nods wisely and starts making sweeping statements about me, personally, based upon a piece of fiction I wrote.
(You /are/ aware that it's fiction, yeah? Fiction is when it /isn't/ real.)
I actually had a pretty enjoyable high school career. Lettered in a couple of sports, a couple of arts, had girlfriends, friends, did a lot of horseback riding, worked a lot of food service jobs, sang a lot, did some theater and generally had fun like a lot of kids. Met and started dating my wife, too. Made some friends I'm still friends with today. Good times.
As for ass kickery, after years of training and a couple of actual situations, I eventually came to the realization that the ability to remorselessly beat the hell out of someone just isn't all that useful on a day-to-day basis. I just haven't needed to smash any boards or gouge out anyone's eyeballs in the checkout line at the grocery store.
Look, if you want to say "the book reads like masturbatory teen wannabe fantasy" that's fine, no problem. If you want to say "the characters were mostly wooden and two dimensional," that's not only acceptable, it also has the virtue of being arguably true.
(Mozart might have written Magnum Opus level material when he was 25, but I'm still on a pretty steep learning curve.)
Tear my material up all you want.
Taking shots at an author /personally/, though? Especially when you've read a tiny fraction of their work, and don't know them from Adam, and evidently haven't bothered to learn anything about them beyond "looks like ex boyfriend"--that's almost as annoying and malicious as your conclusions are inaccurate.
I don't know much about you, other than that you seem to feel free to shoot your mouth off about whatever you want, as long as their aren't any consequences you have to face for it--according to your own profile. At least you acknowledge that it's true, and I can respect that.
But I have to disagree with you on "such is the nature of internet culture." The nature of internet culture is that if you start ripping on someone, there's every chance that someone else might point it out to them, and they might show up to rip back.
Having the courage to sound off only when you're safely anonymous isn't the nature of internet culture. It's the nature of a complete lack of personal integrity.
What, you think that just because you don't have to be there to see it, the stuff you're saying doesn't /hurt/?
I would appreciate it if, in the future, you would take the time to come and talk to me in email, or read some of my posts at my web site, or otherwise take three or four minutes to learn something about me worth insulting, and THEN start badmouthing me ACCURATELY.
Jesus, it's not like there isn't plenty of material to work with.
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on 2007-08-18 12:17 pm (UTC)Gosh, some of the female characters are prettier than average. I'll bet that every single person who writes like that probably has the exact same deep seated insecurity issues as me! My god, is there any chance that you're in the field of psychological counseling? Because there's evidently a bloody FORTUNE to be made on writers.
Harry carries a gun. And, as part of carrying a gun, he's made himself familiar enough with the weapon to make sure that he points the end the bullet comes out at whoever it is he wants to be dead. I can see now that it's been a total breech of author-reader contract for me not to have had Delta Force snap Dresden up ages ago for his marksmanship skills.
I could go on, but instead, allow me to pay my compliments on your outstanding evaluation of me personally based upon reading Storm Front.
Like all authors, I do so love it when someone starts nods wisely and starts making sweeping statements about me, personally, based upon a piece of fiction I wrote.
(You /are/ aware that it's fiction, yeah? Fiction is when it /isn't/ real.)
I actually had a pretty enjoyable high school career. Lettered in a couple of sports, a couple of arts, had girlfriends, friends, did a lot of horseback riding, worked a lot of food service jobs, sang a lot, did some theater and generally had fun like a lot of kids. Met and started dating my wife, too. Made some friends I'm still friends with today. Good times.
As for ass kickery, after years of training and a couple of actual situations, I eventually came to the realization that the ability to remorselessly beat the hell out of someone just isn't all that useful on a day-to-day basis. I just haven't needed to smash any boards or gouge out anyone's eyeballs in the checkout line at the grocery store.
Look, if you want to say "the book reads like masturbatory teen wannabe fantasy" that's fine, no problem. If you want to say "the characters were mostly wooden and two dimensional," that's not only acceptable, it also has the virtue of being arguably true.
(Mozart might have written Magnum Opus level material when he was 25, but I'm still on a pretty steep learning curve.)
Tear my material up all you want.
Taking shots at an author /personally/, though? Especially when you've read a tiny fraction of their work, and don't know them from Adam, and evidently haven't bothered to learn anything about them beyond "looks like ex boyfriend"--that's almost as annoying and malicious as your conclusions are inaccurate.
I don't know much about you, other than that you seem to feel free to shoot your mouth off about whatever you want, as long as their aren't any consequences you have to face for it--according to your own profile. At least you acknowledge that it's true, and I can respect that.
But I have to disagree with you on "such is the nature of internet culture." The nature of internet culture is that if you start ripping on someone, there's every chance that someone else might point it out to them, and they might show up to rip back.
Having the courage to sound off only when you're safely anonymous isn't the nature of internet culture. It's the nature of a complete lack of personal integrity.
What, you think that just because you don't have to be there to see it, the stuff you're saying doesn't /hurt/?
I would appreciate it if, in the future, you would take the time to come and talk to me in email, or read some of my posts at my web site, or otherwise take three or four minutes to learn something about me worth insulting, and THEN start badmouthing me ACCURATELY.
Jesus, it's not like there isn't plenty of material to work with.
Jim Butcher