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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      A lot of people who want every writer to be Hemingway don't seem to fully get this Terry Pratchett and David Foster Wallace both used footnotes and digressions for very different purposes but neither Discworld nor Infinite just would be the same if you chopped all that out

      1 reply 2 retweets 23 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Not just that "the story wouldn't be as fun or as interesting", it literally WOULD NOT BE THE SAME STORY Every digression is a set of brushstrokes in the painting just as much as any of the "major plot points" are

      2 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Indeed, the idea that the "plot points" are the important thing is frequently all messed up and backwards Often the plot is just a damn skeleton, an excuse to talk about the stuff the author wants to talk about, it doesn't actually matter

      2 replies 2 retweets 28 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Certain zealots -- people with a CinemaSins obsession with "plot holes" -- think of this as a critical flaw in a story Even if the plot doesn't have "holes" they get up your ass about how the plot needs to have a "structure", Hero's Journey shit Don't take them too seriously

      1 reply 2 retweets 19 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      It's like getting all pissed off at Van Gogh because he, unlike his colleague Emile Bernard, didn't make nice clear outlines around the shapes of stuff he painted "You should be able to tell what a drawing is of if you subtract the color -- his paintings are NOTHING but color"

      1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Nothing about Moby Dick (an example I'm kind of fixated on because it's this byword for "long, boring novel" that I read at a young age and fell in love with) would be improved by making the "plot clearer"

      2 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Moby Dick -- like all books -- is actually a story about only one character doing one thing, the story of the author writing the book Melville's OOC digressions about whaling and shit are just as much part of "the story" as the actual shit happening on the Pequod

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      Moby Dick is a book about Melville being a weird dude whose life was all distorted and twisted and warped around this part of his life most people find horrifying and disgusting and scary -- his career of murdering beautiful creatures at sea and slicing off their fat to sell

      1 reply 3 retweets 18 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      The book is a book about a man trying to make a human connection, to get you to understand this strange alien world that made up such a huge part of his life Geeking out at you about all the knots he learned to tie is one tactic The made-up story about Ahab's leg is another

      1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      But they are all part of the same thing Just like Hal Incandenza's personal life story is only one thread in Infinite Jest, and possibly not even the most important one

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

      (DFW's story "Octet" is one that stuck with me a really long time, because it's a story where he literally *gives up on telling the story* halfway through and just starts talking directly to the reader through the fourth wall about why he's writing the story)

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

          I have always aspired to be able to write that kind of thing and make it work, which is very difficult but very powerful when it works Just admitting to the reader "I don't think I can make this story work, and frankly I'm not doing great personally right now"

          2 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus

          Like, say, Dave Sim rapidly going "off the rails" toward the end of Cerebus Or like SCP-2999

          2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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