Dan Brown interview in my daily newspaper, this line caught my eye: > "Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan. There's a great saying that the thriller writer who starts a book without knowing where's he's going is just lying," he told The Associated PressOh wow, really? What a great saying! I’m sure a lot of people say that! THE FUCK, WHY DID HE JUST BLATANTLY LIE ABOUT SOMETHING THIS DUMB?
>>24748457>WHY DID HE JUST BLATANTLY LIE ABOUT SOMETHING THIS DUMB?Because he started without knowing where he was going
>>24748457Whatever became of him?
>>24748474What do you mean? That article is about the book he just published this year.
>>24748483Yay, more slop for the uneducated masses. Lucky that real literature died in the 20th century, no?
Jean Genet: if you begin a book and know where it's going, that's not a book it's a bus ticket.(But he said it in french)
>>24748489What if I know where it's going but not how it gets theret. 275 pages into writing my doorstopper fantasy sloppa
>>24748489He meant that from the perspective of the reader. Dan is speaking from the perspective of a writer.
The only book I read from him was Inferno and only partially. I remember that several things angered me so much, I refused to read further.
>>24748604How do you know that the unread parts wouldn’t have assuaged your anger?
>>24748617I can't know for sure. But I was almost at the end and I don't think very much would have changed.
>>24748457If you don't have a plan for your book you are lying but when your plan is just your self-insert sexy detective professor fantasy, or you know - fiction, I am sorry, chief, you aren't exactly telling the truth either.
>>24748457>Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan
>>24748457I don’t know what you’re upset about. He overgeneralized based on his own experience (or what he wants people to think is the default). Clearly a lot of authors do not have a plan. Should they have a plan? I think we all have examples of where no plan meant a shitty book trying to tie everything together at the last minute. Very unsatisfying. But plenty write without structuring it first and are successful. And perhaps most damning a lot plan their book out and fail to write anything engaging anyway, or have it hinge on contrivances regardless. The roads to a successful narrative are many but few make it all the way there.
>>24748457>THE FUCK, WHY DID HE JUST BLATANTLY LIE ABOUT SOMETHING THIS DUMB?Because he is a compulsive liar and cant stop it even if it's patently stupid. None of his supposed historical tidbits are true either. Not really much point in reading anything he writes.
>>24749178I’m upset that he felt the need to say something as stupid as “there’s a great saying…” to something that is obviously neither great nor a saying.
>>24749178>t plenty write without structuring it first and are successful.that's what brown is saying. they are lying.
>>24750135he's wrong. that's what actual storytelling talent is, the ability to figure out the tale in the very process of telling. of course he doesn't have it, but it's only his narcissism making him deny that others do.
