It's not the height, it's the intensity

[oursin]

And I should be doing a recent reading post, but I'm still too exhausted and out-of-sync. But this irked me enough to generate a probably deceptive surge of energy to post with.

Making my way through the piles of accumulated mail, I came to Focus: the BSFA Magazine for Writers, Autumn 2007 no 51, which included an article on 'How do I stand out on

Comments

[legionseagle]

Well, surely it's rahter "If Daleks would make it better, it's not my kind of thing".

Daleks would undoubtedly improve Lady Chatterley, though.

[tree_and_leaf]

You're doubtless right - but it's always entertaining to set up ridiculously subjective propositions as Rules of Literature. And after all, Harold Bloom gets away with it!

[legionseagle]

Thank god that episode was Ecclestone and not Tennant, is what I say.

[jonquil]

He'd probably have bitten the eyestalk off the Dalek.

[veejane]

The journey of my adult reading and writing life has been the discovery that stuff blows up, while an oft-entertaining plot development, is most times much more interesting and worthwhile when it occurs metaphorically rather than literally.

[oursin]

So true.

[mamculuna]

One thing I have loved about Ursula Leguin is that she sometimes works not with the great conquest of the universe but with the side effects on some forgotten corner.