Too many targets to risk losing focus on any single one of them 
Larry Send a noteboard - 29/01/2012 01:38:16 PM
Larry Send a noteboard - 29/01/2012 01:38:16 PM
All without having to stop and think for more than a few seconds. I just thought I'd indulge in taking another potshot at the turgid epic fantasies out there 
I noticed.
But there was enough to criticize in that article without doing that, I thought - and if you look at the premise while ignoring the author's sillier points, it could be a good discussion, the effects of age on an author's works. Perhaps, but I think what might happen is that certain ageist views might also emerge. After all, why do quite a few readers assume that an older author has "lost it" and that his latter works are just not as good? If one reads an experienced writer's later books with that attitude, it might be more the the reader than the author at fault there.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Do authors age like fine wine or like that rat that died behind the fridge three days ago?
- 28/01/2012 08:11:28 PM
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That article got off on the wrong foot and never really managed to get it back.
- 28/01/2012 11:09:08 PM
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Yes, and I could have listed quite a few "genre" writers as well for counter-evidence
- 29/01/2012 01:43:28 AM
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Indeed.
- 29/01/2012 11:35:09 AM
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Too many targets to risk losing focus on any single one of them
- 29/01/2012 01:38:16 PM
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- 29/01/2012 01:38:16 PM
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Re: Too many targets to risk losing focus on any single one of them
- 29/01/2012 01:46:37 PM
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- 29/01/2012 01:46:37 PM
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Hm, that's interesting. I've been thinking about this off and on for a while now.
- 29/01/2012 08:33:36 PM
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