I've got a creeper who hates me...

lambenttyto

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It's another writer. Not on here. Won't say who. Guess I'll have to subtly write him into my next piece of fiction. He's a real narcissistic weirdo. Do you ever do that, insert things into your writing? I killed off Brandon Sanderson in one of my novels, because of how much I dislike him now. Petty, I know, lol, but it felt kind of good, and if George RR Martin can kill off harry Potter in A Song of Ice and Fire because Rowling got an award he wanted, then I can kill off Sanderson and creepy writer weirdos who are jealous of me, right?
 

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That's entirely fair. Killing off a represented person is common throughout history for stories. The Roman continuation of the Iliad and Odyssey was used to make fun of Caesar. Dante put a ton of Popes and historical figures he didn't like in hell. It's normal and pretty therapeutic.
 

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You talking about minx or me?
No, no one here.
That's entirely fair. Killing off a represented person is common throughout history for stories. The Roman continuation of the Iliad and Odyssey was used to make fun of Caesar. Dante put a ton of Popes and historical figures he didn't like in hell. It's normal and pretty therapeutic.
Now that you mention Dante, I know he put Muhammad in hell. Good refrence. I hadn't thought of that.
 

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It's another writer. Not on here. Won't say who. Guess I'll have to subtly write him into my next piece of fiction. He's a real narcissistic weirdo. Do you ever do that, insert things into your writing? I killed off Brandon Sanderson in one of my novels, because of how much I dislike him now. Petty, I know, lol, but it felt kind of good, and if George RR Martin can kill off harry Potter in A Song of Ice and Fire because Rowling got an award he wanted, then I can kill off Sanderson and creepy writer weirdos who are jealous of me, right?
Creeper ah man
 

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It's another writer. Not on here. Won't say who. Guess I'll have to subtly write him into my next piece of fiction. He's a real narcissistic weirdo. Do you ever do that, insert things into your writing? I killed off Brandon Sanderson in one of my novels, because of how much I dislike him now. Petty, I know, lol, but it felt kind of good, and if George RR Martin can kill off harry Potter in A Song of Ice and Fire because Rowling got an award he wanted, then I can kill off Sanderson and creepy writer weirdos who are jealous of me, right?


Generally inserting a character just to make fun of them makes for bad writing, as Meg demonstrates.

Likewise, When It Died thinks that South Park began to fail when they started getting fixated on Trump.


Generally, to make good fiction, you have to be pretty neutral. South Park didn't pick sides, but trashed everyone. Trying not to hurt anyone by singling ppl out but focusing on the story. Now, I believe South Park have managed a reboot of sorts, but they got caught up in the latest news, and it kinda screwed up their normal episode structure.
 
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Generally, to make good fiction, you have to be pretty neutral. South Park didn't pick sides, but trashed everyone. Trying not to hurt anyone by singling ppl out but focusing on the story. Now, I believe South Park have managed a reboot of sorts, but they got caught up in the latest news, and it kinda screwed up their normal episode structure.
I wasn't planning on being overt, just like I wasn't overt when I killed Sanderson off.
what did brandon sanderson do?
All the bad things.
 

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You should always be overt when you kill off Brandon Sanderson.

Also, if you do in fact kill off an author, you need to kill them off like characters in their book (running Terry Goodkind through with the Sword of Truth, burning Robert Jordan with balefire).
 

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You should always be overt when you kill off Brandon Sanderson.

Also, if you do in fact kill off an author, you need to kill them off like characters in their book (running Terry Goodkind through with the Sword of Truth, burning Robert Jordan with balefire).
Heyyy! you're in direct contradiction from what you've already said! lol
 
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