Comments on: David Hartwell at Anticipation http://www.assortednonsense.com/2009/08/12/david-hartwell-at-anticipation/ "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana." -- Betty White's Mother Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joe Mahoney http://www.assortednonsense.com/2009/08/12/david-hartwell-at-anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-9941 Joe Mahoney Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:47:40 +0000 http://www.assortednonsense.com/?p=435#comment-9941 Donaldson still pretty much writes like that, and yet I don't think he has to impress anyone anymore. It's a very Lovecraftian sentence, that one. Like "The scions of the race were inurned in the sepulchre on the declivity." (Lovecraft) The kind of sentence that stops you cold, because you have to look up every second word. Yeah, those guys clearly weren't following the "make every sentence compelling" school of thought. Donaldson still pretty much writes like that, and yet I don’t think he has to impress anyone anymore. It’s a very Lovecraftian sentence, that one. Like “The scions of the race were inurned in the sepulchre on the declivity.” (Lovecraft) The kind of sentence that stops you cold, because you have to look up every second word. Yeah, those guys clearly weren’t following the “make every sentence compelling” school of thought.

]]> By: Michael Lozinski http://www.assortednonsense.com/2009/08/12/david-hartwell-at-anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-9931 Michael Lozinski Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:45:14 +0000 http://www.assortednonsense.com/?p=435#comment-9931 That's a fascinating concept to me - the idea of trying to write compelling sentence after compelling sentence. It sounds like an exhausting, daunting task to set yourself as a writer. Tell me, Joe; would this sentence ever appear in one of your novels? "He trudged on under an aegis of dolorous portents." Maybe when you were 15. It sounds as if the author was trying to impress his readers with his vast vocabulary, and maybe he was. I'll give you the two preceding sentences for context: "And now he was wholly dependent upon Saltheart Foamfollower. It was not a good omen for a leper." Not a bad book, all things considered. Could have used a little more editing, though... That’s a fascinating concept to me – the idea of trying to write compelling sentence after compelling sentence. It sounds like an exhausting, daunting task to set yourself as a writer. Tell me, Joe; would this sentence ever appear in one of your novels? “He trudged on under an aegis of dolorous portents.” Maybe when you were 15. It sounds as if the author was trying to impress his readers with his vast vocabulary, and maybe he was. I’ll give you the two preceding sentences for context: “And now he was wholly dependent upon Saltheart Foamfollower. It was not a good omen for a leper.”

Not a bad book, all things considered. Could have used a little more editing, though…

]]> By: Joe Mahoney http://www.assortednonsense.com/2009/08/12/david-hartwell-at-anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-9672 Joe Mahoney Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:53:36 +0000 http://www.assortednonsense.com/?p=435#comment-9672 No I didn't catch that... neat pic, though; thanks! No I didn’t catch that… neat pic, though; thanks!

]]> By: Charles http://www.assortednonsense.com/2009/08/12/david-hartwell-at-anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-9654 Charles Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:47:48 +0000 http://www.assortednonsense.com/?p=435#comment-9654 "One for now." heh heh heh Did you catch Neil Gaiman talking about writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett? He linked this from his twitter stream which made me chuckle "How GOOD OMENS was not written -- me plotting & @terryandrob scattering jokes: http://bit.ly/1AGRc" “One for now.”

heh heh heh

Did you catch Neil Gaiman talking about writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett? He linked this from his twitter stream which made me chuckle

“How GOOD OMENS was not written — me plotting & @terryandrob scattering jokes: http://bit.ly/1AGRc“

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