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Instead Of Making Proclamations As If They Love Reading But Their Only Pet Peeve Is The Existence Of Books - Blog Posts

goldieslearning

2 years ago

a tumblr post titled "things books with 100,000 words or more are good for (generally)". the post lists, "kindling, the toilet paper shortage of 2020, paper mache." the tags read, "including the bible? yes. including lord of the rings? yes. including game of thrones? GOD yes. i was gonna say epically long flip books but you should be able to make a decent flipbook out of a decent novel. flip books too should be concise. it's called craft. it's called storytelling. it's called sticking to the plot. it's called killing your darlings. it's called having a brutal editor and kissing their feet for the vital work that they do. never have we needed them more."

someone put this screenshot in my notes and i wasn't gonna put the op on blast but i cannot stop thinking about it. this is up there as one of the funniest doubling downs i've ever seen. "it's called craft. it's called storytelling." is going to enter my meme vernacular and no one is going to have any idea what i'm talking about. the count of monte cristo shows a clear lack of craft in its wordcount. if only ernest hemingway's editor had killed more of his darlings while he wrote for whom the bell tolls. readers and editors alike are always complaining about how fucking long to kill a mockingbird is.