You Are Not Your 401(k) Balance
Sep. 30th, 2008 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseThe subject is most of I have to say about the bailout, and the bailout not passing. Unless you want a five-paragraph rambler that about magical thinking on a national level and liberals voting in line with conservative Republicans, which is so yesterday. My roommate M and I caught up on this and other topics while I was making dinner and flipping channels. I'm done with Heroes; I didn't make it through the first half hour last week, and next week's preview suggests a strong correlation between non-blonds and evil. I want this show to be something it's not: smarter than its antecedents.
My actual thought of the day was about novels.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meril has listened to me try to articulate my dislike for romance novels on more than one occasion, and recommended I try Hurricane Moon as a nice balance between sf and romance. Briefly: SF and romance foreground different concerns. This shift in focus changes pacing, worldbuilding details attended to, and the very definition of "good story". If you start really thinking about this, it may explain why romance reads as a SF story in dire need of editing at the sentence level: the prose is not doing what I think it's trying to do. If this were a knitting project, one is a vest, and the other a sweater. Also, I keep trying SF/romance fusion novels that are first novels, which probably doesn't help. Compare and contrast the first novels of: Catherine Asaro, Alexis Glynn Latner, and... I don't know, the "in death" series? What's the prose doing on a sentence level, other than driving me completely insane with all the talking about feelings?
Ack! Bus! Leaving now!
My actual thought of the day was about novels.
meril has listened to me try to articulate my dislike for romance novels on more than one occasion, and recommended I try Hurricane Moon as a nice balance between sf and romance. Briefly: SF and romance foreground different concerns. This shift in focus changes pacing, worldbuilding details attended to, and the very definition of "good story". If you start really thinking about this, it may explain why romance reads as a SF story in dire need of editing at the sentence level: the prose is not doing what I think it's trying to do. If this were a knitting project, one is a vest, and the other a sweater. Also, I keep trying SF/romance fusion novels that are first novels, which probably doesn't help. Compare and contrast the first novels of: Catherine Asaro, Alexis Glynn Latner, and... I don't know, the "in death" series? What's the prose doing on a sentence level, other than driving me completely insane with all the talking about feelings?Ack! Bus! Leaving now!
