Y'all.

[tt_7]

antishurtugal-reborn.dreamwidth.org/99253.html#comments (throwback link)

Remember when Paolini said

"...I have trouble taking seriously any sci-fi that, well, takes itself too seriously."

:DDDDDDDDDD

 
PS: not sure if the link is working because im a friggin noob on DW.  :(

Comments

[oblakom]

Paolini may be the less self-aware person I know...

[tt_7]

I'm not surprised, providing his books have provided us with numerous examples of Algaesia changing according to Pao's whims. So him changing his stances on his own works is something to be expected out of routine.

[hidden_urchin]

This reminds me of something I read here

https://www.mysterytribune.com/ten-types-of-authors-who-can-go-fuck-themselves/

Number Ten, especially.

[glimmerfox]

That's a great read.

[tt_7]

A timeless piece.

[torylltales]

...and so do I, because it was only in February, two and a half months ago.

[tt_7]

He managed to contradict himself in 2 1/2 months. I is impressed.

[torylltales]

He's slowing down, he used to be able to manage up to three contradictions within a single interview.

[tt_7]

three contradictions within a single interview.




Uh...further evidence that Pao is winging things instead of sitting down and thinking everything thoroughly.

[epistler]

Which just gets even funnier, because having spent the entire afternoon going through his latest AMA he claims several times very emphatically that he plans everything out in detail. He also has the gall to advise would-be writers to avoid contradicting themselves because it can "break an entire story", or words to that effect.
The irony is just unbelievable.

[tt_7]

I get the feeling that somehow he spends his entire writing career contradicting himself, and I can't quite articulate the cause. Something to do with only thinking superficially. Maybe someone could put them into better words.

[epistler]

I suspect you're probably right, and it's a result of shallow thinking and a supreme lack of self-awareness, mixed with a very simplistic world-view.

[tt_7]

Yeap that's most likely the case.

[torylltales]

And the fact that half his worldbuilding (being very generous here) is made up on the fly and forgotten soon after.

I pity poor Immanuela trying to figure out which version is canonical for Paolini's reference encyclopedia (yes, he hired an office assistant to make an encyclopedia of his worldbuilding for him to reference for later stories)

[epistler]

And the fact that half his worldbuilding (being very generous here) is made up on the fly and forgotten soon after.

Ah yes - I should have added "...and a really short attention span." And apparently a really bad memory as well.

[torylltales]

I disagree, you have have issues with attention span and memory and still have consistent worldbuilding. Writing everything down in some sort of, I don't know, encyclopedia that you can reference as you write, is really helpful. AS and WHEN you build your world, not after you've written and published the full series.

[epistler]

Good point. Let's just go with "lazy" then, shall we?

[tt_7]

Short attention span and memory doesn't affect the worldbuild that much. It's more on how you organize the rules you set up for the fictional setting and keeping record on them to ensure the story does not contradict said rules.

AS and WHEN you build your world, not after you've written and published the full series.

What Paolini preaches vs what he practices.

I'd agree with Epi that Paolini is just simply lazy when in comes to worldbuilding and paired with his sheltered, simplistic worldview, leads to a disastrously incoherent fictional universe.

[teres]

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