It also explains my own struggles with fiction. Trying to master specific technical skills like exposition, characterization, suspense etc. feels like creating a zombie without life. The missing bit is not skill but that I haven't found a repeatable genre-dissolve/invent pattern.
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My aspirations in fiction are low. Not shooting for the moon or Nobel quality literature. I just want to write one longish story that both "works" and is technically competent. But there's something here I still haven't cracked. Like Turing wanted AI to beat a mediocre human.
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Whither mediocrity? Or is mediocrity there a preservation of energy towards your efforts here?
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I think about this a lot too. The challenge with “fusion” is to figure out a way in which the two parts work together to *actually do something*, and not just be one thing in the costume of another. The aesthetics has to go all the way to the *core*https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1016227475297144832?s=21 …
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Film that and you may have the perfect date movie (following a dinner of Korean tacos).
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