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  • Mar. 13th, 2008 at 6:51 PM
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Oh, my dear young writer, didn't anyone tell you that Live Journal is actually where the Living Dead of the writing world are created?
-- Robin Hobb


Damn.

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[info]jonathanstrahan wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 08:06 am (UTC)
We all thought you knew. I mean, we all thought 'well done her, for persevering', but none of *us* have lj's
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:29 am (UTC)
Yeah, right, your soul is saved because you use a DIFFERENT commercially available blogging interface.
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[info]jonathanstrahan wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:33 am (UTC)
Well, duh! It's not blogging, it's LJs that are the problem. You'd have to be silly to say that.
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:36 am (UTC)
Uh huh. *raspberry*
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[info]justinelavaworm wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 12:40 pm (UTC)
You just can't cope with the truth, Deb. LJ has EATEN YOUR VERY SOUL!
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 10:37 pm (UTC)
Oh, please, ANOTHER person who thinks WordPress presents a kind of salvation. We're all sisters under the skin, y'know...!!
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[info]chrisbarnes wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 08:06 am (UTC)
Aargh! *Now* she tells us.

Oh well. Living Dead? Could be worse. Maybe I'll get to wear a cool cape and mesmerise young women with my unearthly stare...
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:30 am (UTC)
Always glass half full with you, eh, Barnes? ;)
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[info]angriest wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 10:05 am (UTC)
I think Robin Hobb's coming off a bit snooty here. I mean, I don't go around ranting about how she shouldn't waste her time writing overly long and relatively boring fantasy epics, do I?
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:30 am (UTC)
I think you just did, actually.
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[info]angriest wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:45 am (UTC)
Well I sort of did, but not really, because I haven't read her books and can't actually comment on them. I just don't like it when writers get snooty about how other writers go about their business.

I mean, Warren Ellis posts something like 12 blog posts a day, and still finds the time to be a novelist, comics writer and script writer. And his online presence has pretty much cemented his fanbase.
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 12:38 pm (UTC)
I wonder if Ms Hobb is simply jealous of the writers who can achieve multiple writing successes AND have time for blogging.

Lord knows I am!
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[info]justinelavaworm wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 12:46 pm (UTC)
She is speaking the gospel truth: LJ is EVIL!
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 10:38 pm (UTC)
*raspberry*
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[info]babalon_93 wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:01 am (UTC)
I love that second last paragraph:

...blogging is literary pole dancing.

Actually I think this is both funny and scary because there are some very strong elements of truth in there.
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[info]deborahb wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:34 am (UTC)
Literary pole dancing. :) Could be something in that...
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[info]ratfan wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 12:51 pm (UTC)
John Scalzi seems to do all right as well...
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