Because Of Wfw's Return To How It Used To Be, A Post About What I've Been Reading Lately, Even Though It Isn't Much Like What It Used To Be

Because I've been reading Science Fiction. I know, right? And yet Orson Scott Card is an amazing writer. It's the bullshit universes and whatnot that people pull out of their asses that don't impress me very much, since I like my fiction grounded in reality, but I have to admit that sci fi can go deeper than that, if it's done right.

To reassure my nonexistent readers, I'm reading By-Line: Earnest Hemingway, which provides some stunning insights into Hemingway's absolutely crap career as a journalist. Don't get me wrong, he has some good articles, but he's a novelist through and through. He was a novelist before he wrote novels, and I'm sure that he would not have had a stunning career as a journo. He has some good insights about the war, because he can talk impressively about it. He can talk impressively about it because he was confident that he knew slightly more than anyone else about it. He was confident because he had experience with it. I think that's what drove him to novel writing. His need to embellish his own story, without the restrictions that journalism placed on him. He made a good living off of that, and that was good enough for what it was, but thank god for his ego. In Memory of Petey
[Dave]
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