4/ While I'm unsure of "Style is the Rocket", I can whole heartedly recommend Simon's earlier book "Writing Down the Dragon" on the topic of Tolkien and fantasy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BUBJW1Q …
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5/ Fascinating!https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/1308117050343079936 …
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6/ One big reason to read outside of genre to is get exposure to something more than the local monoculture. Compare, say, William Gibson who was influenced by the Beats, William S Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, and who DID SOMETHING NEW in SF, vs, say someone who ONLY reads Niven
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7/ This gets to the thread I had some months back about how fantasy novels have been getting more and more insular, to the point where tons of modern dreck is being written by people who only know fantasy via VIDEOGAMES.
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8/ And let's also talk about non fiction! My friend
@VarangianSkull is working on a SF novel that I can't wait to read. Thales reads INSANELY deeply on Byzantine history, and that rich knowledge is going to, I think, push his novel in a direction that is going to be brand new.1 reply 1 retweet 10 likesShow this thread -
9/ My Aristillus books were political and were obviously influenced by Heinlein's MiaHM, but unlike him, I wasn't channeling 1776, but more like 876https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iceland#Settlement_(874%E2%80%93930) …
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Kendric Tonn @kendrictonnReplying to @MorlockPI read Mark Helprin, then later revisited Hemingway, and a lot of Helprin suddenly clicked into place, which was FASCINATING to me because Helprin's florid, magic-realism style wasn't a space I expected to find enormous amount of Hemingway DNA. I love these connections.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
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11/ dude, I TOTALLY get you Don't have time to take a pic of my "writing" bookshelf right now, but a few things from memory >>>https://twitter.com/nym0_speaks/status/1308120290992455685 …
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12/ A Reader's Manifesto (author mentioned earlier today) Writing Down the Dragon and Style is the Rocket by Simon Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin Harlan Ellison's Watching: Essays and Criticism by Harlan Ellison
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13/ The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn has some stuff on Heinlein's style On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
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14/ There are probably better out there, I'm not sure. Basically I'd suggest that reading books on writing will potentiate you to the elements of style, which will make further reading of fiction more profitable bc you'll have an analytic framework that makes you notice things
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Much obliged!
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* GOOD books on writing, which happen to sync up with your own style and needs But of course, reading a variety of books on writing (and on basic style, e.g. Strunk & White) will expose you to a range of ideas, and make it more likely you stumble across the ones best for you.
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