"Every truly original writer must, by definition, create a new world."


... and retires
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From: [identity profile] peake.livejournal.com


Bit young to retire, aren't you? Academics must be paid more than I thought.

As to the quotation (from whom?): it all depends what is meant by 'new world'. Every truly original writer must create something new (or they wouldn't be 'truly original', would they?), but whether you want to call that newness a world ...

From: [identity profile] drasecretcampus.livejournal.com


It's the lead in to The Gruadain (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-fiction-fantasy-introduction)'s guide to sf/fantasy.

From: [identity profile] buffysquirrel.livejournal.com


They're begging the question. They've defined "truly original writer" as one who creates a new world. If they actually looked at wot they wroted, they'd realise it says more about them than about writers :D.

From: [identity profile] drasecretcampus.livejournal.com


It feels like a circular definition somehow - and very few writers have created a truly original setting or world. It's most;y people in rubber suits. And here form is clearly as significant as constant, in the originality stakes, to the degree that they can be separated.
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