Apr-15-2011, 10:15 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Apr-15-2011, 10:20 AM (UTC) by danieladamsmith.)
THat's an interesting take on FF, Farseer.
Like I wrote I think the intention is good but perhaps they don't feel confident enough in their own ideas. It's like music. Now certainly there are great songs that people have re-interpreted through the years...but as a musician I was never really interested in being in a cover band. Relatives or friends will come and see me and they'll always say..."you should play a Stones song or a something we know" and I always role my eyes. I love the Beatles, I love the Stones, I love Bowie and many many others. But I write my own material. Now if you want the Beatles and Stones hey....slap them on your stereo. Or in this case read the book again. And look if you are a writer 9 times out of 10 your first book is going to be a retread over something you admire. I heard Patrick Rothfuss say that. His first book was just a retread of all the fantasy he read growing up. SO instead of writing fan fiction, write that first book that's a retread...put it in the closet and then get to work on YOUR real story.
Like I wrote I think the intention is good but perhaps they don't feel confident enough in their own ideas. It's like music. Now certainly there are great songs that people have re-interpreted through the years...but as a musician I was never really interested in being in a cover band. Relatives or friends will come and see me and they'll always say..."you should play a Stones song or a something we know" and I always role my eyes. I love the Beatles, I love the Stones, I love Bowie and many many others. But I write my own material. Now if you want the Beatles and Stones hey....slap them on your stereo. Or in this case read the book again. And look if you are a writer 9 times out of 10 your first book is going to be a retread over something you admire. I heard Patrick Rothfuss say that. His first book was just a retread of all the fantasy he read growing up. SO instead of writing fan fiction, write that first book that's a retread...put it in the closet and then get to work on YOUR real story.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
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