[Dragaera] Steven Erikson (was: Reading series)

[John Dallman]

In article <5D640A29369E43B0AEEF36224DE35A3A at Prophnt3.local>, 
casey at the-bat.net (Casey Rousseau) wrote:

> http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030203/brust.shtml
> SB: The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature states that all literature 
> consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool, and the reader will
> enjoy the work to the degree that the reader and writer agree about
> what's cool -- and this functions all the way from the external
> trappings to deepest level of theme and to the way the writer uses 
> words. 

One has to beware of taking him too literally. I heard him expound his 
method of writing based on this: Think of a cool sentence to put down, 
then another one to follow it and so on. That is clearly not his whole 
method of constructing stories, however, unless his subconscious is a 
genius of organisation. 

-- 
John Dallman, jgd at cix.co.uk, HTML mail is treated as probable spam.