/lit/ - Literature

>>18885247
>>18885253

damn it weeb, at least if you were self aware enough, you would notice that berserk is a second rate copy of the things it inspired, you aren´t that smart

>>18441648
>Does this mean that, to be genuinely good, science fiction and fantasy have to have Christian elements to them? Is the reason so much modern fantasy and sci-fi is trash that they've strayed away from Christian ideas?

you have to be small minded to think of this, you can create an interesting fantasy/sci fi book without christian influence

>>15665267

>>14216389
>Every great writer served in the military

yes

>>14011039
>Now my expertise is despised here. Ha!


you´re the matron saint of mediocrity, i would be ashamed if i was you

>>13275636
this

>>12228317
I wasn't really saying that as a defense of them so much as a defense of what they're trying to embody. It's easy (and correct) to say that this didn't make good writers into good writers, but the aesthetics of a writer with their typewriter (almost regardless of composition or location) is superior (visually) to a writer at a computer because "sat at a computer" is the vast majority of the modern world.

I mean, restage this picture of Ellison with someone using some off-the-shelf laptop, or some desktop that's all screen and it wont look even half as evocative.

I'm not defending them for what they do, because they're a bunch of psueds and posers, but I am defending what they are longing for, because I think most people on this board have an itching for this.

The only time I ever felt jealous of another person's life is when Harlan Ellison described how he would knock out a story, cash the cheque from it, and use it to pay off his rent for the month and buy a big dinner.

Does anyone else have a half-utopian view of "the writer" as an archetype, claking away at a typewriter and mailing off their work, that just isn't present the modern, digital world?