I am a writer and I hate dream sequences. More than any other convention or cliche, dream sequences are the stupidest thing ever cooked up by the author’s imagination. I avoid them wherever I can. I avoid them like a river of lava. And if the time comes when I absolutely have to set foot in it, when I’ve exhausted all other options for alternate routes, backtracking, and even digging under the earth, I still don’t do it. Nothing wastes more of the readers time than going into a dream. I wish more creative writing teachers and guru told students to avoid this disease of books. Here’s why: 1) Dream…
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Postmodern Mainstream Literary Realism (for Adults)
Let’s talk about ‘postmodern mainstream literary realism’ for a second. What does ‘postmodern mainstream literary realism’ mean? Basically, anything that’s not genre fiction (Sci-Fi, Westerns, romances, fantasy, etc.). They’re all terms for the same thing, I just lumped them together. If you see it on the NYT best sellers list, it’s PMLR. And I hate it. I can’t stomach it. I can rarely read such stuff. It’s pretentious, it’s wordy, it’s nonsensical, it’s dull, it’s repetitive, it’s boring. I’ve made numerous attempts to read The Great Gatsby that ended up in failure. Then there’s The Almost Moon, Heart of Darkness, The Catcher in the Rye, East of Eden. These are…
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Things You Should Know About: MarzGurl Picks Apart Twilight
MarzGurl is one of the Channel Awesome (A.K.A. Doug Walker’s That Guy With the Glasses) vloggers. She specializes in anime and the works of Don Bluth, which are a lot more comprehensive than I thought. Plust she looked smoking hot as Princess Mononoke in Suburban Knights. Channel Awesome’s more known for their videos, but right now MarzGurl is doing something I think is fairly important. She’s examining Twilight, the book, as she reads it. She was curious what all the fuss was about, as any good geek should do, and is posting a literary analysis as she goes on. I’m really impressed with the level of detail. She’s looking at exactly what…
