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Entry title: Muse Driven Frustration
LKH in bold.
First of all, the title made me laugh. Stick a tiny little word in and it's true: Muse driven to frustration. Hey, I certainly wouldn't want to be her muse!
Too much news coverage of the terrible events in New Orleans. Needed something to try and take the mind off of things.
You mean the valiant Guards of the Ivory Tower let her glimpse the World Outside, where News happens? I am in shock.
I'm both amused and disturbed by the fact that she uses the royal we for herself & Anita, but an impersonal article for her own mind. That says a lot, really.
Also saw THE BROTHERS GRIM.
Mocking her mad typo skills is, at this point, far too easy. Perhaps it's my inner English major venting here, but if a fantasy author can't spell Grimm properly, that's damn sad. And she has the gall to bitch about "their use of fairytales"? I'm disappointed with her usage of the English language, let alone the stories she's 'crafted' with it.
The movie tried to do too much. Action adventure, buddy film, comedy, horror movie. A very ambitious mix for anyone to attempt, and sadly this movie just didn't pull it off.
Doesn't that basically sum up the Anita series for you? Then LKH found an easier genre: porn, laced with bad goth descriptions.
I got two book series out of the fact that people were just not doing things the way I wanted to read them.
Boo-fucking-hoo, chickie! Maybe there was a good reason no one was doing things the way you wanted them done: your way sucks, and not in the good vampiric way.
In addition, if her fans had a nickel for every time she spouted this argument... well, we'd at least be reimbursed for all the money we've dropped into her series.
You know, I realize we keep mocking the Ivory Tower*, but maybe we should be grateful for it, in a way. Whenever she interacts with the Real World, she just whines that nothing is done Her Way.
(* = Which leads me to think that we should make a name spoofing this as a subtitle for the community. The Ebony Tower? Nah. I'll think on it.)
Entry title: Muse Driven Frustration
LKH in bold.
First of all, the title made me laugh. Stick a tiny little word in and it's true: Muse driven to frustration. Hey, I certainly wouldn't want to be her muse!
Too much news coverage of the terrible events in New Orleans. Needed something to try and take the mind off of things.
You mean the valiant Guards of the Ivory Tower let her glimpse the World Outside, where News happens? I am in shock.
I'm both amused and disturbed by the fact that she uses the royal we for herself & Anita, but an impersonal article for her own mind. That says a lot, really.
Also saw THE BROTHERS GRIM.
Mocking her mad typo skills is, at this point, far too easy. Perhaps it's my inner English major venting here, but if a fantasy author can't spell Grimm properly, that's damn sad. And she has the gall to bitch about "their use of fairytales"? I'm disappointed with her usage of the English language, let alone the stories she's 'crafted' with it.
The movie tried to do too much. Action adventure, buddy film, comedy, horror movie. A very ambitious mix for anyone to attempt, and sadly this movie just didn't pull it off.
Doesn't that basically sum up the Anita series for you? Then LKH found an easier genre: porn, laced with bad goth descriptions.
I got two book series out of the fact that people were just not doing things the way I wanted to read them.
Boo-fucking-hoo, chickie! Maybe there was a good reason no one was doing things the way you wanted them done: your way sucks, and not in the good vampiric way.
In addition, if her fans had a nickel for every time she spouted this argument... well, we'd at least be reimbursed for all the money we've dropped into her series.
You know, I realize we keep mocking the Ivory Tower*, but maybe we should be grateful for it, in a way. Whenever she interacts with the Real World, she just whines that nothing is done Her Way.
(* = Which leads me to think that we should make a name spoofing this as a subtitle for the community. The Ebony Tower? Nah. I'll think on it.)
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Date: 2005-09-09 04:33 pm (UTC)Another thing that was interesting about the general idiocy of that entry...
"You're supposed to use things as inspirations not rip them off, or regurgitate them on paper. You can be inspired but find your own voice, and your own unique vision. Because that's what it's all about. Your own take on an idea that no one else could do."
Not that it's anything new, but didn't she just completely contradict herself? I love that she wraps up an entire entry of bitching about how people Don't Write Things Her Way with this. ::snickers:: So, I guess what she means is, you can come up with your own "unique vision", and do "an idea that no one else could do"...but, unless it's in keeping with Her Vision, it's complete and utter crap. :P
Yeah, hypocrisy is fun!
(Side note...look, everybody, she spelled "regurgitate" properly! I'm so proud. ::wipes away a tear:: Snarking *that* particular bit is so easy, though, that I won't even say it. XD )
Also...harpergrey has an *excellent* point about paragraphs. Use them, dammit! ::gouges the blog::