In Latveria, they’re all ‘mask mandates’
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Hello. And WELCOME to my Masterclass.
WRITING TIP: “Write what you know” really only works if one of the things you know is how to write. Just follow the simple rubric above…
Sturgeon’s Law in Action
Here’s the blurb from Tor.com’s latest tweet/ad for a novel they just published (review provided, of course, by Locus Magazine):
“What if Gandalf were…a second-class science bureaucrat
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anxious not to contaminate the societies he is studying?
…What if Frodo were a 16-year-old princess?”
Me to the Reviewer: “Well, I guess I’d just be goddamned confused, mostly.”
I mean—hey, who knows (I sure can’t tell from that pitch)—maybe it’s a fine book? But if I think too much about the kind of a world we live in where THAT’S how you’re supposed to sell it? That’s when I start to despair…