In which someone on a homophobic moral crusade against fanfiction (chime into the fray on Goodreads, why dontcha?!) picks an argument with a gay man who doesn’t care all that much about fanfiction.
Author: Tucker Lieberman
Writers, do not do this
The books section of the New York Times on June 10, 1911 warned of “a two-million-word work.”
111 years later, an early version of the work is findable in libraries, but the fifth edition in its two-million-word glory may be harder to find.
If you don’t want this kind of release-day publicity, don’t write a two-million-word work.
‘And I Will Never Change How I Feel’
You have feelings. You may not want or need to change them. But you can process them.
What does it mean to process your feelings? Here are eight GIFs showing how it goes down.
You have nuts.
They are bouncing everywhere.
You pick them up…
You put them in the food processor…
Now you’ve made something different out of your nuts. Your feelings are the same but also they feel different.
Everyone has their own feelings. That’s what makes each person unique. We don’t have to completely change ourselves, but we can process what we’ve got.
Eat what you like. People are not gonna agree. Let them have their own nuts. It’s their job to process their feelings. You process yours.
If someone else understands it, great.
That’s all I wanted to say today. Thanks for coming!
The world gets closer to knowing ‘Climates Unknown’
In this forthcoming novel, Arturo Serrano delivers “a stunning portrayal of how things that seem infinitesimal can shake the entire world,” Dawn Vogel writes for History That Never Was.
From the book description:
“In this alternate history, the Mayflower was lost at sea, and the English Separatists were disheartened from further colonization of North America. The United States were never born. The centuries that follow will see the emergence of rival empires that will split up the world between them. One will become the terror of the seas. One will rampage with carriages of steam. One will take to the skies. And the people caught in the middle will fight against the colonial system to bring an end to all empires.”
To Climates Unknown is available for preorder. It will be released one week from today, on November 25, 2021, the 400th anniversary of the first mythical U.S. Thanksgiving.
When art feels real: ‘discovery rather than invention’
“I’ve never felt I was making any of this up…I’ve never felt it was anything other than real: discovery rather than invention: exploration rather than creation.”
Lauren, the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
quoted by Madelyn Jablon, Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American Literature (University of Iowa Press, 1997, p. 140)
Tucker Lieberman 