What a complete idiot LKH is...

[queen-kimberly.livejournal.com]

Her blogs are getting progressively more idiotic.
In response to today's blog (and I put this on the forum as well, so I had to be as nice as it was possible for me to be about LKH, although it's sure to be deleted by the tool moderators very soon. Rest assured, I'm not entertained by the books. Well, not after the first 5):

Ok.

LKH and Harper Lee don't even garner comparison.
They are in different leagues.
Harper Lee was a genius.
LKH is an entertainer.

I'm entertained by the books, and that's all that should be taken from such a popcorn-genre.

I have 2 words, and take them how you will:
DRAMA. QUEEN.

Quit writing, if you aren't enjoying it.
It's not like you're saving the world a book at a time.
No one will die if LKH decides she's over being an author.


I'm not being mean, just saying what everyone is thinking.


EDIT: Ha, the mods deleted the post on the grounds that I called Laura a Drama Queen, which I obviously did not.
Well, not there.
What tools. It's disgusting.

Comments

[runwiththestorm.livejournal.com]

No one will die if LKH decides she's over being an author.


Not only will no one die, I know quite a few people who would throw a party. ;)

[lilian413.livejournal.com]

It's just an endless cycle of of 'woe is me, for I am misunderstood', her yes-men nodding feverishly and her ego growing one giant leap at a time. I guess one day she'll explode because her head will have entirely filled with all the hot air she creates around herself.

*sigh*

Maybe then, she'll see reason and plot as friends, instead of enemies and 'OMGyousuckyoumeanienoob!' denial.

[talymil.livejournal.com]

...Are you talking about Anita or LKH?

[lilian413.livejournal.com]

Does it really matter? :-)

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

Oh Gods above and below...THIS has got to be one of THE wankiest blogs I have EVER seen her put out. HOW DARE she compare herself to Harper Lee? Harper Lee wrote a great literary work that is timeless, and is still discussed by people TO THIS DAY, and it actually makes you THINK.

LKH...when she stops writing her books, they'll all fade into obscurity in less than a decade.

And the popcorn fluff is getting pretty stale. :p

My therapist suggested, could I stop writing such violent things. She thought it might be affecting me. You think?

OMFG, she DOES have a therapist! WE keep saying she NEEDS therapy, WHY is she completely BATSHIT INSANE???

*points in disbelief*

I...I have no words. Anyone want to share in a collective *Palmface* moment?

Me? I'll be rolling my eyes over here in disgust at all the "waaaaaaah! I HAVE 2 GIVE U MY SOUL TO WRITE THESE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!eleventyone11111111 Share in my pain, don't you understaaaaaaaaaaand me?" waaaaaaaaangsting. :p

[sevariusjr.livejournal.com]

You know, it never really ceases to amaze me how often shitty writers will compare themselves (favorably) towards true literary giants. It happens a lot with shitty erotica writers, it seems. I used to get into quite a few flame wars with erotica writers, actually (many of you might disagree with me, but my personal philosophy is that erotica is just not a genre that should be taken that seriously, so don't go around considering yourself a serious artist if you're spending your time writing Kirk / Spoke slash fiction, you're just going to end up the subject of my mockery), and they'd always wind up arguing like Laurell here. Oh I'm misunderstood, you just don't get what I'm doing, you must not be able to handle the material, I'm just like fill-in-the-blank-with-famous-author-here.

Just STOP it. Actually, that's what this crazy bitch needs. She needs a good slap across the cheek, and that followed up with someone telling her, with as much disgust and condescension as possible, to just STOP the nonsense.

[defiler-wyrm.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's what this crazy bitch needs. She needs a good slap across the cheek, and that followed up with someone telling her, with as much disgust and condescension as possible, to just STOP the nonsense.
In person. T__T Since apparently the "vocal minority" that keeps pointing all this out via the internet and literary reviews are all just a bunch of jealous h8rz.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Not even then did it sink in, as we were regailed with the tale of the person that stood in line to get a book autographed only to tell her ladyship that they hated her. T___T

The moribidly curious part of me wants to know just what would it take to filter a bitchslap of reality into her iddle universe. That part of me is eying off a sledgehammer.

[ladyblue99.livejournal.com]

I wonder about that too... Hey now there's finally a good use for her book "Danse Macabre". Stick that sucker on the end of a broken broom stick, aim, swing, and maybe clubbing her over the head with her own shitty book may snap her out of whatever funk she happens to be in. Cause as you know and unconscious LKH is a good one. If you're not awake, can't write crap.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Yes, but she also compares herself to JK Rowling, Tolkien and Dickens.

Who all have a legacy to the world that's way more thought-provoking than AB:VH or MG.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

I don't think the therapist is working. She went from writing violence (which was in the books with plot) to writing no violence/bad porn. I doubt that's what the therapist meant.

[artemis-rex.livejournal.com]

Your disbelief at LKH actually having a therapist had me giggling for several minutes.

Man, she should sue that woman for malpractice.

I mean srly.

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

If she's getting therapy, it's from someone who sent off 10 empty crisp packets and a cheque for £9.99 for their framed diploma.

I mean, come on. Writing about violence doesn't need to affect you. It's not like looking at the actual effects of violence day in, day out (like doctors, nurses, policemen). Writing this just makes her sound needlessly neurotic.

[sevariusjr.livejournal.com]

No one will die if LKH decides she's over being an author.


There's more truth to this than perhaps you know, because her modern books certainly fill me with a murderous rage at their general awfulness.

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

God knows LKH annoys me more with each word she forces from her poor keyboard, and there is no doubting her supreme ego, but in this case, I don't think she's comparing herself to Harper Lee so much as using something Harper Lee said as an anchor and theme for her post.

What was in Harper Lee's soul was great, and poignant. LKH may very well be giving parts of her own soul to each word she writes, though I imagine she ran out a while back. Those pieces don't add up to what Harper Lee did, but she may be feeling the same sort of draining and stress. Maybe this darkitydarkdark-lite is all she has to give.

Frankly, she should have stopped writing several books back. She's burned out, and the real tragedy of this blog post is that she doesn't see it yet.

[leatherzebra.livejournal.com]

I second that. She may not be on the same level as Harper Lee, but that doesn't mean she doesn't put her soul into her books. Obviously there are a ton of people out there who aren't in a position to judge as they've never written a book. Bad or good the effort drains.

Quite honestly, all amusing flogs and actual critcism aside I think a lot of people here are going too far.

Oh, and yes, damn that girl needs to take a year off. Every writer has to take time off so they don't burn out.

[ellenel13.livejournal.com]

She did not. I mean, comparing herself to Stephen King I can overlook. But Harper Lee. Disgusting.

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

Could it really be true?

LKH, admitting she and Anita are one and the same?

LKH, admitting she's getting tired of writing all that sex?

She says she lays herself out in her books, puts too much of herself into it. Well, that's certainly true. I could do with a bit less of her making characters into avatars for her and her minions, and blogs detailing her sex life.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I admitted for years that I wasn't ready to write anything for publication because I wa journaling in my writing; dealing with issues I couldn't handle without the buffer of fiction.

And my therapist agreed it was a healthy process for me. What I have to wonder is how much is LKH paying her therapist not to explain the difference between private stories and professional work.

Not to mention a therapist has to know that once you've worked through the issue, you move on. Sometimes leaving that therapy work half finished.

Damn, have the last 7 books and all of Merry's books been what happens when LKH can't find a credible and ethical therapist?

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

Damn, have the last 7 books and all of Merry's books been what happens when LKH can't find a credible and ethical therapist?

Probably so...OR she's gone through multiple therapists, until she found one that just kept stroking her ego and telling her what she wants to hear.

I can just picture that therapist going through her appointments and be like "OH GOD, I have THIS WOMAN again for my Tuesday appointment! Hmmm...maybe I can conveniently 'forget'...oh well, time to take that bottle of Jack Daniels out from the bottom drawer so I can get through this week's session of nodding and smiling."

I feel sorry for her therapist. :p I'll bet that her therapist laughs behind her back.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I'll bet that her therapist laughs behind her back.

That's actually an awful thing to not just have happen but to even think about. You expose so much of yourself in therapy, to have someone laugh at that...

Although again I say if LKH would stop exposing herself in her books, then she wouldn't have to feel so defensive when readers laugh and critique. It's the difference between journaling and professional writing.

I hate to think that she's been exploited by someone who cares more about getting paid than helping her. Because if she did seek help, she deserves to receive it just like anyone else.

Though I don't understand how her friends and family play into things, as surely they can / could see that she was crossing a line somewhere.

Scary thought: You don't suppose the recent 12 or so books are really what happens after family peer review?

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

That's actually an awful thing to not just have happen but to even think about.

Hmmm...you do have a point there. I guess I have been a little too nasty towards her, and it is mean to say. I have had my share of therapy on and off for years, and the last shrink I went to I actually liked, because he GOT me...he referred me to another therapist that was really good, and I trusted his opinion.

I hate to think that she's been exploited by someone who cares more about getting paid than helping her. Because if she did seek help, she deserves to receive it just like anyone else.

I think she is receiving help...but I don't know if it's the best or right help, per se. (Your previous theory may be right, in that she actually has an unethical therapist that is exploiting her for her money and using her vulnerability, and if that is the case, then that is profoundly sad.)

Even though I have a very intense dislike for LKH, when it all boils down, she is still a human being, and she still has feelings, all joking and snark aside.

Scary thought: You don't suppose the recent 12 or so books are really what happens after family peer review?

OH GOD...I hope not. Gods only know what could have come out of THOSE sesssions if it is the case.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

My therapist encouraged me to write as well, but I knew the difference between fantasy for therapy and fantasy professionally. She didn't have to point it out to me, though she did raise the question once or twice.

Bless ethical doctors.

[leggomylegolas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know what? I don't care how hard you are writing, what you do is nowhere near as difficult as reading this shit.

Maybe if she took the time to actually work out a story structure and think about what she was going to write beforehand, instead of just sitting down and trying to commune with the muses, it wouldn't be so incredibly difficult. Oh wait, that's not how ARTEEEESTS work, is it?

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

Anita still sounds like me, so it's harder to step away from the computer and not carry her and all of it with me.

Goodness, she doesn't even try denying that Anita is a Mary Sue.

And she dies a little with all she gives! Like Judy Garland! Because she's a tortured Arteeste!

[allova.livejournal.com]

I read this blog entry of which you speak.

I suspect she expected me to think: "My god, what a martyr. We have completely misunderstood her. She is not crazy. She is a true artistic genius, writing literature with her heart and soul, and her work will be remembered for centuries to come. She will be remembered for her striking feminism, her celebration of unbridled human (and vampire etc) sexuality and her intricate and daring plots that push the envelope, test boundaries and make us confront ourselves with the hard questions. My god. What a woman. What a truly amazing woman."

...

...

*snerk* What a load of ol' self-important wank that woman writes. Srsly. With the amount of pr0n she writes, she also puts out an amazing amount of wank. I want to slap her and tell her to get over herself. She writes vampire porn. It ain't gonna change the world.

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

You know, the thing about Harper Lee was that there was never any decline in the quality of her books because she knew when to stop. Imagine how disappointed we'd be if To Kill A Mockingbird was on its 12th incarnation and Atticus is torn between defending a man accused of rape and fucking him senseless for 120 pages.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Atticus is torn between defending a man accused of rape and fucking him senseless for 120 pages.

Brain bleach, please. *shudders*

[x-trickster-x.livejournal.com]

Seconded. *shudder* Atticus is, like... my hero. XD

[slayra.livejournal.com]

I think that LKH's problem (this from reading her blog) is that she is way too self-centered. She's is a sci-fi/fantasy writer who made it to some US bestsellers lists and she thinks she hangs the moon. She thinks she write really well and that her books are works of art. She even started to think that people should worship her. I truly dislike arrogant and rude people. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. That is why I will not buy her books. I'll get them all for free (on a trade site) and laugh at her bestselling stats. MWAHAHAHAHAHHA!

[karmyn75.livejournal.com]

If she's not enjoying her writing then she needs to take a little break. The world is not going to end if you need to change a publication date. It happens a lot in world of publishing.
And don't ever compare yourself to Harper Lee or Truman Capote. Don't even compare yourself to Danelle Steele or Rosemary Rogers. Don't compare. it's not healthy.

[x-trickster-x.livejournal.com]

that's all that should be taken from such a popcorn-genre.

Shouldn't that be popPORN? (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist)

But seriously, how dare she compare herself to Harper Lee! The very thought makes me feel vaguely ill.