Comments on: How to Write a Good Book http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/09/12/how-to-write-a-good-book/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:46:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: S.C. Butler http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/09/12/how-to-write-a-good-book/#comment-392 S.C. Butler Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:17:35 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/09/12/how-to-write-a-good-book/#comment-392 Yes, yes! I agree with Kate. It's this millennium now. And I think you point out one of the great problems with academics and academia - they're constantly trying to distill everything into one 'grand truth', the grand unified theory of aesthetics. But aesthetics, like readers, is a messier than that. Different readers like different things. And some readers even like more than one thing. Yes, yes! I agree with Kate. It’s this millennium now.

And I think you point out one of the great problems with academics and academia - they’re constantly trying to distill everything into one ‘grand truth’, the grand unified theory of aesthetics. But aesthetics, like readers, is a messier than that. Different readers like different things. And some readers even like more than one thing.

]]> By: Kate Elliott http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/09/12/how-to-write-a-good-book/#comment-387 Kate Elliott Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:59:02 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/09/12/how-to-write-a-good-book/#comment-387 I think you absolutely should write those essays. It is a new millenium, after all. I think you absolutely should write those essays. It is a new millenium, after all.

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