no, jeff, not even ender's game

[travisezell]

Some of the best writing advice I've taken, as it turns out, comes from an essay by Orson Scott Card (whom I've never read a novel by... not even Ender's Game), reprinted in one of several "How To Write Science Fiction" anthologies I pored over in 1997. I didn't realize at the time just how much of an impact this tidbit was going to have on how I

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[bowl_of_lilacs]

it's always been difficult for me to understand how someone who is a total ass can say such interesting things and write such interesting books. i'm so conflicted over orson scott card.

but it's true - that's also how most of the best contemporary poems come about, and how i try to write a lot of my poems. two or three or many totally unrelated ideas, often smushed together in a way that makes it clear how simultaneously inadequate and lovely language is.

[travisezell]

it's always been difficult for me to understand how someone who is a total ass can say such interesting things and write such interesting books.

I can't imagine that you're not talking about 95% of all literary or academic figures from every culture since the dawn of man.

[springheeledjim]

Wow, sounds like Card's philosophy is the same as Guillermo del Toro's! You should hear my friend John's del Toro in a pitch meeting impression.