[Dragaera] Steven Erikson (was: Reading series)

[Steve Rapaport]

The way I took this was not as literal as the first quote, nor as
collaborative as Philip suggests,  just that when in doubt about a new plot
twist, or character, or bit of dialogue, choose the cooler possibility, the
one that makes the author smile.

Steve the Younger

2009/1/21 John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk>

> 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.
>
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\Steve