FIRST ENCOUNTER New Book bi KJA

Robspierre · Post by **Robspierre** » 24 Jun 2008 21:39

Two out of three so far....lots of material here

Rob

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 24 Jun 2008 21:41

looking at your output, do you ever wonder if your work has suffered quality wise?
Ah, is that the old myth that "if you write quickly, you can't possibly be good"? I never allow a work to be published until I am convinced it is as polished as I can make it.

ADMISSION: I'm doing my best.

(Ain't good enough!)

My work has been nominated for the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards; it's been named "New York Times Notable Book" of the year, been selected by the Science Fiction Book Club as the favorite novel of the year by the largest margin in the history of the award, and has won numerous other fan and reader awards. No, I don't think the quality has suffered.

Hasn't won any REAL awards. SELF-DELUSION: I'm a good writer!

(Bullshit.)

Let me offer a different gauge. I may write quite a few books in a year, but I write ALL THE TIME, seven days a week, at least eight hours a day. I know many other authors who put in a couple of hours in the evenings and on weekends. They might produce a novel a year, while I publish six -- but I've actually spent more HOURS on each book than they did.

SELF-DELUSION: My cock is bigger.

Alternative translation: My shitpile is bigger 'cause I never get off the pot.

(But shit is still shit.)

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 24 Jun 2008 21:45

I kept going because *I* always knew I was going to be a writer, so I kept at it and kept at it -- through over 500 rejection slips. but along the way I wasn't just wasting my time...I was getting better and better.

THE DELUSION IS OLD AND DEEP!

500 rejection slips (SEE, EVEN MORE THAN THAT OLD WINDBAG HERBERT GOT FOR HIS NOVEL, NYA NYA NYA!!!)?

CANNOT TAKE A FUCKING HINT!!!

If he has been getting better and better over the years, what the hell was his writing like when he started?

Sloey-level?

Robspierre · Post by **Robspierre** » 24 Jun 2008 21:47

Blast! Nothing on characterization!

Rob

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 24 Jun 2008 21:48

Looks like his hour is up.

Chintzy bastard...he can only give them one fucking hour?

What a GUY!

(Ah...this was FUN!

Someone write the bastard and tell him we'll have to do it again REAL SOON!!!

)

Robspierre · Post by **Robspierre** » 24 Jun 2008 21:50

SandChigger wrote:
Sloey-level?

Don't insult Sloey!!!!!!!!

Rob

TheDukester · Post by **TheDukester** » 24 Jun 2008 22:03

Oh, my ... it's not often that I'm left speechless, but ... what a tool!

The only thing worse than a hack is a hack with delusions of grandeur.

One of you guys is logging his responses, right? The transcript of this thing is going to be a comedy gold mine for months and months.

Robspierre · Post by **Robspierre** » 24 Jun 2008 22:05

Judging by what they have done with past writers is they just lock it and leave it for others to peruse

I must Say Tim Powers had some good stuff to say and he spread his out over one thread and several days.

Rob

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 24 Jun 2008 22:12

Sadly, I think we may have only ourselves to blame. If we didn't have a system in place that celebrated mediocrity and lavished "awards" upon hacks like KJA, he'd have long ended up someone's bitch stuck in the basement with a career proofreading cookbooks.

Post by **Omphalos** » 24 Jun 2008 22:13

I would have liked to start a thread about scientology influences on him.

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 24 Jun 2008 22:13

May that still be his fate!

(If that boulder doesn't get him, I mean.

)

Robspierre · Post by **Robspierre** » 24 Jun 2008 22:16

Omphalos wrote:I would have liked to start a thread about scientology influences on him.

I see it as two snake oil salesmen using each other.

Rob

Phaedrus · Post by **Phaedrus** » 24 Jun 2008 22:39

Immeasurably important. You have to know the other universe inside and out and you have to get everything right -- this is especially true because the fans of those universes (Star Wars, Star Trek, X-Files, Dune, etc.) also know the series inside and out and [because *they* all want to write novels there] they are trying to catch you at any mistake.

Wait, didn't he say somewhere that no matter how hard you try, there are going to be errors? He doesn't just contradict Frank Herbert, it seems.

Seraphan · Post by **Seraphan** » 12 Jul 2008 11:46

because *they* all want to write novels there

I prefer to read them, preferably good ones if possible, mediocre stuff just gives me chafe. But hey at least there's some sence of humor in KJA, i hope

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 12 Jul 2008 19:26

I don't think that was an example of his sense of humor. (I'm sure he must have one, even if it's very small, pinched [I like that word of late!] and warped.)

This is a new gambit on his part—at least, I haven't seen or heard him use it before this—so maybe he just thought of it recently. But it's really just a variation on the old "you're just critical because you're jealous" rationalization.

I'm sure he believes it and wasn't joking. He thinks we all want to write Dune stories and novels and hate him because he's the one who got chosen (=wormed his way in). He'll never seriously entertain the possbility that we hate his books because they're badly written.

orald · Post by **orald** » 13 Jul 2008 02:10

SandChigger wrote:He thinks we all want to write Dune stories and novels and hate him because he's the one who got chosen (=wormed his way in).

The badly acted SW ep.3 final battle scene comes to mind suddenly...But you were the chosen one!

Like Anakin, he too turned to the Dark Side. And probably goes about killing little kids.

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 13 Jul 2008 22:01

orald wrote:
SandChigger wrote:He thinks we all want to write Dune stories and novels and hate him because he's the one who got chosen (=wormed his way in).
The badly acted SW ep.3 final battle scene comes to mind suddenly...But you were the chosen one!

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!