Comments on: Weekend Update #7

By: Paul Riddell

Paul Riddell — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:29:00 +0000

Maxnmona, at least as far as I was concerned, it’s definitely intended as a compliment: the problem lies with the dolts who refuse to accept that nobody’s going to buy their clichefests. The only way to get them to knock it off and stop writing is with blatant and constant ridicule: it can sometimes even work against the Cat Piss Man who feels compelled to wear his Next Generation uniform to work every day.

By: maxnmona

maxnmona — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:31:00 +0000

k I’ll prove that I’m me by writing my name into a little box here.

I’d say that anyone who writes a science fiction book using those cliches won’t be calling them “homage” but rather “every single science fiction book currently availible for sale”. It’s like blaming a guy for pointing out that we’re all gonna die: it’s not his fault, it was already inevitable.

By: Sean Lindsay

Sean Lindsay — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:52:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure the guy who wrote the SomethingAwful article wasn’t Anonymous.

Neither compliment nor insult, just an observation of the danger of putting an arsenal of loaded cliches into untrained hands. You call them “common metaphors”, the writers who will re-use them call them “homage”, and eventually they will be so over-used we’ll call them “sub-genre”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:23:00 +0000

As the guy who wrote the SomethingAwful article, I can’t tell whether I’ve been complimented or insulted or what (???)

By: Paul Riddell

Paul Riddell — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:06:00 +0000

They may be cliches, but at least they’re my cliches, and anyone dumb enough to copy them is welcome to them. The fact that I can be spotted by my own cliches proves that I quit writing at the best possible time.