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minervasoloFound a new webcomic, yes I did, yes I did. Frightmore University. Read the character bios, but don't think too much about them. They almost put me off, but it is funny.
Building another website, yes I am, yes I am. OFor origfic and stuff, just not stuff I think i have a hope in hell of ever getting published, at least not without getting other stuff published first. Need a decent name for it, though. Site theme is black, white and grey, sort of altered graveyard images. I like it so far (always a good sign ^_^ ). btw, having started to get on with rewriting bits of Greenhelm, if anyone wants to read hte first few chapters, it could probably do with a once over. Typical sword and sorcery fantasy, i'm afriad. I can't read that genre any more - every book is a rehash of the same old story. As is Greenhelm, but at least I acknowledge it. See, later books are different, but I need the foundation. But there will be a democratic government, and servants saving the day (but not becoming nobles in the process) and morally ambiguous bad guys, and good guys who aren't built like Schwarzenegger... You ever noticed those trends? Fantays novels always have a king, or Emperor, or Duke or whatever. Always a fuedal system. Never a democracy. And the good guys are brawny, and the bad guys are brainy (reverse of Sci Fi, someone once noted). Intelligence is loked on with suspicion, and usually leads to try to take over the throne or similar. Only nobles, or people who become nobles, are ever the stars. No farm boy remains a farm boy. And And the bad guys like being evil.
... no wonder literary critques look on Fantasy as a trashy genre. Though trying to insist Sci Fi is the same is blasphemy! Sorry, been reading way to many rants on that subject, from disgruntled Sci Fi authors. If it's a good book, it can't be Sci Fi. It's 'speculative fiction' or 'future based action-adventure' or 'socio-political speculations'. Which are all basically Sci Fi. So there nuuh. :P
Anyway, yes, site building and book writing and comic hunting. tumtetum.
Building another website, yes I am, yes I am. OFor origfic and stuff, just not stuff I think i have a hope in hell of ever getting published, at least not without getting other stuff published first. Need a decent name for it, though. Site theme is black, white and grey, sort of altered graveyard images. I like it so far (always a good sign ^_^ ). btw, having started to get on with rewriting bits of Greenhelm, if anyone wants to read hte first few chapters, it could probably do with a once over. Typical sword and sorcery fantasy, i'm afriad. I can't read that genre any more - every book is a rehash of the same old story. As is Greenhelm, but at least I acknowledge it. See, later books are different, but I need the foundation. But there will be a democratic government, and servants saving the day (but not becoming nobles in the process) and morally ambiguous bad guys, and good guys who aren't built like Schwarzenegger... You ever noticed those trends? Fantays novels always have a king, or Emperor, or Duke or whatever. Always a fuedal system. Never a democracy. And the good guys are brawny, and the bad guys are brainy (reverse of Sci Fi, someone once noted). Intelligence is loked on with suspicion, and usually leads to try to take over the throne or similar. Only nobles, or people who become nobles, are ever the stars. No farm boy remains a farm boy. And And the bad guys like being evil.
... no wonder literary critques look on Fantasy as a trashy genre. Though trying to insist Sci Fi is the same is blasphemy! Sorry, been reading way to many rants on that subject, from disgruntled Sci Fi authors. If it's a good book, it can't be Sci Fi. It's 'speculative fiction' or 'future based action-adventure' or 'socio-political speculations'. Which are all basically Sci Fi. So there nuuh. :P
Anyway, yes, site building and book writing and comic hunting. tumtetum.
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Date: 30/8/03 03:51 pm (UTC)