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[Piga Dgrifm]

Barry Goldblatt, leading cancel culture warrior and literary agent, gets #metood.

Jesse Singal with the news, and also with the confirmation that the various YA SJWs so eager to cancel first-time writers and any low-level peon for wrongthink undoubtedly knew about the accusations, but stayed silent because they ... how would they put it? Oh, yes, they only punch down, not up.

The number of people surprised that sanctimonious, aggressive SJWs are also massive hypocrites? Zero.

Well, so long as he never wrote a book featuring a character that is in any way different from him, he's fine.

 

[GeorgiaGuidestones]

Barry Goldblatt, leading cancel culture warrior and literary agent, gets #metood.

Jesse Singal with the news, and also with the confirmation that the various YA SJWs so eager to cancel first-time writers and any low-level peon for wrongthink undoubtedly knew about the accusations, but stayed silent because they ... how would they put it? Oh, yes, they only punch down, not up.

The number of people surprised that sanctimonious, aggressive SJWs are also massive hypocrites? Zero.

Oh, the hypocrisy and the sweet, sweet taste of exposing these people for who they really are. It’s so beautiful.

 

[Xolanite]

Writers who care more about identity politics than writing a good story won’t be remembered 20 years from now; unless they are used as an example of how not to write or analyze stories (I hope).

 

[AnOminous]

Writers who care more about identity politics than writing a good story won’t be remembered 20 years from now; unless they are used as an example of how not to write or analyze stories (I hope).

Woke politics change so fast that no matter how woke you are now, if you've made that the only thing in your work, you're just going to be a racist, x-phobic shitlord of some sort, against some minority that hasn't even been invented yet but is, like troons are now, somehow the most persecuted minority in all of history.

 

[Mola Ram]

Woke politics change so fast that no matter how woke you are now, if you've made that the only thing in your work, you're just going to be a racist, x-phobic shitlord of some sort, against some minority that hasn't even been invented yet but is, like troons are now, somehow the most persecuted minority in all of history.

Being eternally off balance to the point you always keep your mouth shut just to be on the safe side is a pretty classic hallmark of totalitarianism.

 

[AnOminous]

Being eternally off balance to the point you always keep your mouth shut just to be on the safe side is a pretty classic hallmark of totalitarianism.

Writers, especially woke writers, can't do that, though. They have to say and do shit which automatically puts an expire-by date on them. They have to say woke shit and it has to be today's woke shit.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Barry Goldblatt, leading cancel culture warrior and literary agent, gets #metood.

Jesse Singal with the news, and also with the confirmation that the various YA SJWs so eager to cancel first-time writers and any low-level peon for wrongthink undoubtedly knew about the accusations, but stayed silent because they ... how would they put it? Oh, yes, they only punch down, not up.

The number of people surprised that sanctimonious, aggressive SJWs are also massive hypocrites? Zero.

I eagerly await the day when these clowns finally join their rightwing forbearers in being irrelevant mocked laughing stocks.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Is Cat Rambo's fiction as turgid and screechy as her essays? Damn, was this painful to get through. And I don't even mean thematically, I mean in the nuts and bolts of the prose. On top of that, there wasn't one syllable in this mess I found surprising. She's like some sort of synthetic human, stuffed full of a series of dogmatic assertions, vomited clumsily onto the screen.

The New Rude Masters of Fantasy & Science Fiction – and Romance

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[Mola Ram]

Is Cat Rambo's fiction as turgid and screechy as her essays? Damn, was this painful to get through. And I don't even mean thematically, I mean in the nuts and bolts of the prose. On top of that, there wasn't one syllable in this mess I found surprising. She's like some sort of synthetic human, stuffed full of a series of dogmatic assertions, vomited clumsily onto the screen.

The New Rude Masters of Fantasy & Science Fiction – and Romance

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This is the kind of shit that makes an aspiring writer want to burn the whole fucking thing down. Christ, I'm depressed.

 

[SnarkySperg]

IDK what I expected from someone who looks like this:

Why is it always danger hair?

The state of the writing community is scary and depressing. It makes me want to give up because why bother? Nothing anyone does is right unless they're an oppressed minority. Even then they're not guaranteed safety.

 

[Chan Fan]

This is the kind of shit that makes an aspiring writer want to burn the whole fucking thing down. Christ, I'm depressed.

I agree. Being a published author used to be my dream but now I'm just content to write on here and in word docs no one else will ever read. My writing has become as closeted as most of my other beliefs. I've learned to take joy in doing it, not receiving praise for it. It's bittersweet.

 

[LetterlandMafia]

Same here. Once dreamed of being an author. Now the prospect of success is less attractive to me given all these gremlins come out of the woodwork to try and tear down anyone more successful than them. SFF is absolutely full of them and they run the show. It’s not a circus I want to be in (and I doubt I’d be invited anyway).

I’m happy to just throw stuff out on the web and hope I entertain someone in the process. It’s a cliche but you really have to do it because you love it. No one is coming to help or support you or prop you up. You just have to do your thing because you enjoy making it for yourself, anything else is a bonus.

 

[Anne Frankenstein]

I agree. Being a published author used to be my dream but now I'm just content to write on here and in word docs no one else will ever read. My writing has become as closeted as most of my other beliefs. I've learned to take joy in doing it, not receiving praise for it. It's bittersweet.

Publishing under a pseudonym is a perfectly dignified response to current year. These YA harpies do it all the time why shouldn't you?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Best bet is self-publishing under a different name so that if these harpies get pissy they can't find anyone to actually attack. But even that's not perfect since they can ree at Lulu/Amazon/Etc. until they give in and pull the book.

 

[IceGray]

Perhaps writing for a different medium? Such as a visual novel. Of course, that presumes you have access to good illustrators.

 

[Syaoran Li]

If I'm going to write a novel, I'll just self-publish under a pseudonym or something.

Also, avoid the "Young Adult" label, as that's the most likely to attract the dangerhairs. Even if your book is "Young Adult" in terms of its intended audience or genre, the label has certain specific connotations. Just label it as Sci Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, or some other conventional genre and self-publish it.

While Sci-Fi and Fantasy literature also have a wokeness problem, it's mainly in the publishing industry, and self-publishing circumvents most of that since most dangerhairs who do step out of the YA bubble typically stick to books that are published by certain major companies, and self-publishing now viable in the internet era.

 

[Safir]

Perhaps writing for a different medium? Such as a visual novel. Of course, that presumes you have access to good illustrators.

I don't think that presumption needs to hold. There's no need to bring good illustrators onboard your indie visual novel project. You can't compete with commercial publishers on asset quality. If you're anywhere in the first world, writing will already have a high enough opportunity cost. Get to writing and plan to commission the characters and run some photos through a filter for backgrounds; meanwhile, substitute borrowed or programmer art. But get to writing first, if you like writing at all. Then, if you still want to partner with an illustrator for a share of the profits (why), you'll have an easier time finding one when your novel is almost done than an "idea guy" with only a shitty elevator pitch.

 

[GeorgiaGuidestones]

IDK what I expected from someone who looks like this:
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Why is it always danger hair?

The state of the writing community is scary and depressing. It makes me want to give up because why bother? Nothing anyone does is right unless they're an oppressed minority. Even then they're not guaranteed safety.

Jesus fucking Christ it’s a boomer with danger hair. That makes it worse.
Even so-called oppressed minorities are feeling the heat from the published woke crowd. Until the industry dumps these 30+ year old women who are controlling the industry, it’s going to continue. It’s so unfortunate because many readers like myself could be missing out on some damn good stories because people are afraid to publish.

 

[Flaming Carrot]

In circular firing squad news a trans author got a story published in Clarkesworld magaizne, then asked to have it unpublished due to other trans people and "allies" flipping out.

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[Webby's Boyfriend]

Writers who care more about identity politics than writing a good story won’t be remembered 20 years from now; unless they are used as an example of how not to write or analyze stories (I hope).

I think, some years from now, no one is going to remember most of our contemporary books and films or they will look very dated, due to politics and popculture being inserted into everything.