normally i wouldn't tell people to give up on their dreams but come the frick on 💀💀
in typical reddit fashion, everything is so so bad. the advice, the depressed writers looking for people to validate their awful ideas. i distinctly remember one poster who wanted to know if people wanted to read about dinosaur bones.
that's it. no mention of characters, no worldbuilding, no paleontologist murder mystery set in the heart of the african jungle. if you can't convince yourself, why should we care?
here's a quote from Adaptation (2002):
People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fricking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fricking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry, somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you my friend don't know crap about life!
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Why is so much fantasy writing godawful? Does it just attract pseuds?
Romance is usually schlock but it's written by foids who are more in tune with that side of themselves.
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you can make a decent story with just action or drama but fantasy hinges on worldbuilding, drama, and action all working together seamlessly. add to this a lot of fantasy is frickin long
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It's funny because the whole LOTR trilogy is ~1k pages. So like 300 pages per book. Modern fantasy writers would be wise to take some lessons from that I think.
I made my way through the latest Stormlight book (1k pages I think). Shit was a real drag to get through. It's a real shame because I enjoyed the general plot / story beats. But it took forever to get from one interesting moment to the next. Felt like a 200 page story being stretched to 1k.
Fascinating how all popular fantasy series seem to trend towards that. I wish these bastards would have some disciple.
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iirc baderson has mentioned the length of his books is a monetization strategy - people are more likely to use their monthly audible credit on a long butt book
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Yeah it makes sure r-slurs like me buy the next one i guess. I suppose he could just write better but that's asking alot.
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