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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy : Another Word: Reading and Writing... - 0 views

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We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
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I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
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Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
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Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
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Reading is the same way.
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He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
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And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
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How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
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beautiful and damning distinction
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best self
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authentic self
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Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
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Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
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reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
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I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.
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Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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20th century American writer
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blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction
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lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union
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critical liberal intellectual
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honorary president of the American Humanist Association
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known for his humanist beliefs
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eight rules for writing a short story:
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
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Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
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Start as close to the end as possible.
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No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
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Write to please just one person.
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense.
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