Subject: I'm... dubious about that advice.
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Posted on: 2014-02-26 14:12:00 UTC

To my way of thinking, the purpose of advice - and specifically advice about writing - should be to help someone to write the story they want to in the best possible way - not to suggest they should write a different story entirely. If I may indulge in a bit of slippery-slope, it's a bit like responding to every request for advice with 'You shouldn't write that. You should write about Finrod Felagund instead'. Which, I admit, would be pretty awesome... but isn't what they want to write. ;)

Yes, I know the analogy isn't that good. But... if I want to write, oh, a crossover where the Goblin King in the Misty Mountains is Jareth from Labyrinth, and Beorn is actually Aslan, and Mirkwood is the Hundred Acre Wood gone dark, and the Lonely Mountain is, I dunno, I'm running out of ideas here, but you get the point... getting the advice that 'that's too complicated, maybe just do one of those things' won't help me to write that story. It might well help me write a better one... but not the one I want to write.

hS

(And Thorin and company are Discworld dwarfs, and Smaug is actually GLaDOS...)

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