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Originally Posted by Yot-chan
Hey, I'm not the one criticizing here.
And yeah, while I've published no novels, I have had stories published in literary magazines...for what that's worth (not much).
But hey, if you want to have a discussion about (say) the live-action Transformers, I'll tell you EXACTLY why I thought it was crap, and I'll show you how I would've done it differently, and I'll even explain why my version is better.  |
I was criticising a certain school of writing, which avoids having satisfactory pay-offs to their storyline by throwing unexpected curveballs at the audience. Writers of that school are so invested in being "unpredictable" and "non-traditional" that getting such an ending becomes predictable with them. And I expressed how for me that doesn't work very well, because I like a storyline with good foreshadowing and strong emotional links to come to its logical conclusion, because that seems to me to be the better emotional pay-off.
I really don't know how that merits such a dismissive "Why don't you write your own stuff?!?" response.