Day 902: Irregularly Scheduled

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1. memline says:

   October 16, 2014 at 1:09 pm

   Influence–you do have it, primarily because we trust you. That may or may not cause us to buy a recommended book depending on interests and the sound of the plot, but for sure it helps decide if it is well written or not. This also works for possible recommendations for other blogs or the legitimacy of a site. There are so many flakes (fakes) out there. I don’t want to just randomly go into a web page I don’t know anything about.

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2. Tara Li says:

   October 17, 2014 at 10:43 am

   Memline already mentioned it – but you should consider explicitly blocking Saturday and Sunday as “Me Time”, leaving Monday through Friday as your work days.

   You also discussed the Steampunk genre currently being focused on tech as the story, instead of it being the setting. My first thought was that Golden Age science fiction had the same problem, and grew out of it – but I think that’s incorrect. There’s room for those kinds of stories – the ones with the info-dumps (though sure, info-dumps can be handled less clumsily). One could argue that a number of Tom Clancy’s novels have spells of this – people calling it “gun porn”. Ultimately, it’s the story with good characters that last the longest – Kimball Kinnison, Dingo Chavez & John Clark, Doc Savage – but honestly, I kind of miss the info-dumps where you see behind the scenes to how much work the author put into thinking about how the tech works, rather than having it hidden and only the most necessary details used in the story itself.

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