I like the Kulkarni rant, even if he was wasting time shooting a sitting duck. I didn't feel in the least that he's telling me I have to sing like the song, and can do nothing else. He just wants writers to do something rather than nothing. So if I'm being cold and analytic, I don't fear Kulkarni on my ass, as long as my analysis was inspired by the music and potentially takes the reader somewhere.
I thought Tom's post was half-assed, but that doesn't mean I didn't like it, at least somewhat. After all, it's a blogpost. Ideas do tend to start provisional and half-thought. There's no reason in principle that a convo can't take a post like his in multi-interesting directions. A quick skim says the Tumblr convo won't, and fifty previous Tumblr convos say the same, but that result's not written in stone. (Which means maybe I'll get back to the thread, possibly. A couple of the Tumblr responses seemed to be along the lines of "Tom's really put his finger on it," whereas I think he merely tossed a couple of pebbles in the vague direction of a stream.)
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I like the Kulkarni rant, even if he was wasting time shooting a sitting duck. I didn't feel in the least that he's telling me I have to sing like the song, and can do nothing else. He just wants writers to do something rather than nothing. So if I'm being cold and analytic, I don't fear Kulkarni on my ass, as long as my analysis was inspired by the music and potentially takes the reader somewhere.
I thought Tom's post was half-assed, but that doesn't mean I didn't like it, at least somewhat. After all, it's a blogpost. Ideas do tend to start provisional and half-thought. There's no reason in principle that a convo can't take a post like his in multi-interesting directions. A quick skim says the Tumblr convo won't, and fifty previous Tumblr convos say the same, but that result's not written in stone. (Which means maybe I'll get back to the thread, possibly. A couple of the Tumblr responses seemed to be along the lines of "Tom's really put his finger on it," whereas I think he merely tossed a couple of pebbles in the vague direction of a stream.)