26/ No. No. A thousand times, no. There are different genres and different styles, and de gustibus non est disputandum, but technique and skill are objective. Tolkien and Niven are different and great in different ways. ...and some things are bad.https://twitter.com/RobHaines905/status/1252995450916962304 …
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27/ > Becuase really your just coming off as a condescending elitist yes I have a better understanding of what makes skilled writing, because I have diligently studied the topic, and I am condescending to explain it to people who have not. We are in agreement.
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28/ we kind of agree? separate magesteria - I'm glad we live in a world where anyone can self publish garbage and put it before the eyes of 10,000 people who can't tell feces from wine I'm also glad we live in a world where I can explain the difference https://twitter.com/ZeroBolusZero/status/1253005430487347200 …
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29/ so getting back to "but it's pulp!" - there's a great
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30/ one way to re frame this is "any person lives in an N dimension space, looks down, sees N-1, looks up, sees N [ because they can't appreciate the extra dimension ]" pulprev / red tribe / indy SF often does this: they tell action packed stories, look up and see ...
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31/ stories that may or may not have tons of action, but also CLAIM to have character development and plotting and good writing style ... and they don't see these things, because their eyes are not attuned to them, and say "LOL, b̵i̵r̵d̵s̵ style aren't real!"
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32/ the thing is, style ARE real. Technique ARE real. Good writing ARE real. They are ORTHOGONAL to pulp vs non pulp. Pulp partisans often posit a 1-D space of action vs non-action. But let's talk 2-D: action vs non, good vs bad I was actually re-reading >
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33/ a classic pulp tale last night, "Tumithak of the Corridors" (1932), and it's still fun, easy to read, and WELL WRITTEN. It's got a mighty barbarian hero, paper thin science, a big sword, spider villains. PURE PULP. ...and it's well written.
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35/ What interesting world building! Man kind lives deep underground, and has, for centuries. He has returned to a form of barbarism. Yet there are machines that somehow keep them alive. What an interesting world - it raises so many questions. What do we know of the hero?
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36/ "Of course he will come..has Tumithak ever failed to [ keep his promises ] ?" The whole arc of the story is spelled out. What is it that makes a man, Mr Lebowski? Is it wearing power armor as torches "gasp" in a pit of putrid soil, in a crude cavern, in a mazelike warren?
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37/ well, that ... and keeping his promises
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38/ Charles R Tanner is writing trashy by-the-word pulp about alien spiders from Venus ... and yet, in half a page he has created a mysterious world we want to explore, a mysterious history we want to learn, and introduced us to a not-yet-a-man hero who always keeps his word.
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