Have you seen the post Sanderson put on his blog yesterday? https://www.brandonsanderson.com/outside/ He doesn't directly say it's in response to the Wired article (although he does mention an interview where the person who interviewed him ignored a request he made, so it may have been that). It's an interesting insight into who he is and why he writes the way he does. I can relate in a lot of ways, especially to the part about having a strong emotional response to something I read.
I think it's going to also ruffle a few feathers. Sanderson says "Lately, I’ve seen a resurgence of something that genuinely disquiets me: an attempt by some members of our community to hold others outside. Science fiction and fantasy is forever gatekeeping what constitutes good or worthy stories." He isn't, as far as I can tell, talking about the Hugo awards controversies of a few years back, but people on both sides of that drama will probably take what he's saying the wrong way.
So glad I was able to read this article this morning. It was a great start to an otherwise cold, snowy (yes, a new foot of snow since 2:00 a.m.) depressing day.
Thank you for taking the time to use your platform to recognize GoodTweetman. He’s, for real, a genuinely good man. I wish I could be on Twitter and be as good as him. I simply lack that Constitution. That’s why I’m having to stay away. But I miss him and his optimism. If a Twitter existed where I could only see the tweets from the people I wanted to see, I’d be back, but the algorithm has other plans.
I want to believe this, but sadly I’ve seen how some popular media figures (one in particular whose name rhymes with ‘Favid Drench’) cynically manipulate these calls for positivity for their own ends.
The book Truth & Beauty by Andrew Klavan toys and hints at what a New Romanticism might look like in our age. At least what some of the philosophical ideas will have to be to birth such a moment in full.
And that Wired article is...something. I couldn’t make it to the end. The gratuitous cruelty towards both the author and his readers. The smack at Orson Scott Card. The raging jealousy. What a pathetic human being.
Lovely. Boy how we need Mercy in this age of revenge.
Have you seen the post Sanderson put on his blog yesterday? https://www.brandonsanderson.com/outside/ He doesn't directly say it's in response to the Wired article (although he does mention an interview where the person who interviewed him ignored a request he made, so it may have been that). It's an interesting insight into who he is and why he writes the way he does. I can relate in a lot of ways, especially to the part about having a strong emotional response to something I read.
I think it's going to also ruffle a few feathers. Sanderson says "Lately, I’ve seen a resurgence of something that genuinely disquiets me: an attempt by some members of our community to hold others outside. Science fiction and fantasy is forever gatekeeping what constitutes good or worthy stories." He isn't, as far as I can tell, talking about the Hugo awards controversies of a few years back, but people on both sides of that drama will probably take what he's saying the wrong way.
So glad I was able to read this article this morning. It was a great start to an otherwise cold, snowy (yes, a new foot of snow since 2:00 a.m.) depressing day.
Thank you for taking the time to use your platform to recognize GoodTweetman. He’s, for real, a genuinely good man. I wish I could be on Twitter and be as good as him. I simply lack that Constitution. That’s why I’m having to stay away. But I miss him and his optimism. If a Twitter existed where I could only see the tweets from the people I wanted to see, I’d be back, but the algorithm has other plans.
I want to believe this, but sadly I’ve seen how some popular media figures (one in particular whose name rhymes with ‘Favid Drench’) cynically manipulate these calls for positivity for their own ends.
The book Truth & Beauty by Andrew Klavan toys and hints at what a New Romanticism might look like in our age. At least what some of the philosophical ideas will have to be to birth such a moment in full.
And that Wired article is...something. I couldn’t make it to the end. The gratuitous cruelty towards both the author and his readers. The smack at Orson Scott Card. The raging jealousy. What a pathetic human being.