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Anonymous
07/24/26(Fri)09:05:16 No.25420567

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Anonymous 07/24/26(Fri)09:05:16 No.25420567

Tell, don't show. Then keep telling and never show anything.

Anonymous
07/24/26(Fri)10:54:21 No.25420731

Anonymous 07/24/26(Fri)10:54:21 No.25420731

Infinitely preferable to Malazan which goes ten pages without dropping a single proper noun because Erikson is so desperate to seem "literary" that he has to force as many synonyms and euphemisms as possible into every paragraph. The confidence of a master versus the desperation of a hack.

Anonymous
07/25/26(Sat)07:50:43 No.25422147

Anonymous 07/25/26(Sat)07:50:43 No.25422147

You haven't read it. Stick to Gurmslop..

Anonymous
07/25/26(Sat)08:04:02 No.25422156

Anonymous 07/25/26(Sat)08:04:02 No.25422156

>>25420567
That's why it's called storytelling

Anonymous
07/25/26(Sat)23:45:59 No.25423658

Anonymous 07/25/26(Sat)23:45:59 No.25423658

>>25420567
Is there any passage in the book that feels like this to you in particular, OP?

Anonymous
07/26/26(Sun)02:22:58 No.25423813

Anonymous 07/26/26(Sun)02:22:58 No.25423813

>>25420567
A significant chunk of some of the most influential literature ever written would qualify as "bad writing" today with our weird "rules of writing bullshit." Especially this "exposition bad" attitude.

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