They are who we are facing on the battlefield. Not woke publishers, social media companies taking people away from reading, or anything else. If every logic bros stopped deconstructing and destroying and starting building and uplifting we wouldn't need to convert or convince one new person to join the literary renissance. It would happen overnight and change the world.
My novel is complex, but not like Wallace. I write in a minimalistic style, but that's because it's my natural author voice. I guess that means that it has to be some of the best minimalistic fiction or it won't do anything, just like you say. But it's great so I don't have to worry all that much.
I feel like there's got to be some sort of middle way. Infinite Jest is the most unfinished novel of all time. Shouldnt it also be accessible? Or should you have to break out the dictionary every other word?
I much prefer his short fiction to his novels. Oblivion and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men are two of the best collections of short fiction I've ever read.
More than you can possibly imagine. If you don't have an editor, and have the ego to think you can write literary fiction, you need more transition sentences and beacons of alignment for readers than you expect. This is coming from someone who had a big ego with my fiction and had to consciously start adding them in even if it felt dumb.
Hey I'm dumb. Can someone explain this sentence from blood meredian to me? Is it just written in a weird way? I'd he just saying that he only put up the rifle to clean it? The but what us throwing my brain off The sergeant never put the rifle up but what he wiped and greased the bore
What are the names of your cats? I've heard that cat people tend to be people who go against the grain and dog people tend to be people who go with the grain.
Why are you dissing on science fiction and fantasy? Have you never read Gene Wolfe? Malazan? That stuff is infinitely better than something like DeLillo’s Underworld. I tried to read that 3 times. It’s garbage. I have read all the books. I know how to read. Was even an English major a long, long time ago. White Noise was great, that was not and there’s tons of science fiction that has more to say than some of these authors.
When I finished Blood Meridian I felt like McCarthy nailed every word to the page and let them all bleed into that masterpiece. It's definitely not my style of writing, but McCarthy's use of verbs is something all writers could benefit from reading and studying.
I like your videos and I've been following you for a year, but I think that for someone who claims to be a spiritual person (and maybe because of that) you think like a boomer. Fantasy and some video games have been more transformative for me than other books I've read. The Lord of the Rings and Dark Souls are worth more than a thousand pages of Wallace's delirium. One that didn't end well. Wake up Ian
Thing is what David Foster Wallace says is… “The most dangerous thing about entertainment is its ability to mask emptiness with the illusion of meaning.” The thing about Video games that you’ve mentioned are more Entertainment not much transcendental. But yeah, dark souls could be transcendent sure…but how much lives have been saved by reading Infinite Jest? thousands of men got their families back together, being relieved from drugs and any other types of substance abuse and got themselves out of suicide. How much of that has been transformed over a Xbox game over like 12 years ago ? Where lobbies just immaturely screaming the N-word and cause more headaches.
I think his problem is more with the state of those genres in the modern day. I have to agree, pretty much every genre is flooded with awful writers churning out boring and soulless content, not art.
I feel like you should focus more on being like an interesting well rounded person with stake in the world. Kind of being like a perennial commenter on other people’s work/ worshipping at the alter of ‘art’ is a good path to becoming a critic but not a good one to becoming an actual artist. I feel like. Deifying writers or actors or philosophers is kind of an expressway to being lame lowkey
Full of complex idioms, to me, some have pretense and others hopeful rambunctious gesturing. It leaves me, at best, confused and, at worst, uneventful.
Well if you can't save yourself, there's the belief that at least your art will save other people and hoping that they will do better in life if you can't. Not that hard to see.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995I came because I'm intregued by the paradox of writers and their art. Wallace was commercially and artistically successful, yet his life was (apparently) so empty of meaning and hope he killed himself. To me, this negates his work. If his work and (presumably) future work wasn't worth fighting for, why am I supposed to think this is going to be something meaningful in mine?
Take a shot every time Ian rants about logic bros.
They are who we are facing on the battlefield. Not woke publishers, social media companies taking people away from reading, or anything else. If every logic bros stopped deconstructing and destroying and starting building and uplifting we wouldn't need to convert or convince one new person to join the literary renissance. It would happen overnight and change the world.
@@WriteConsciousI get what you’re saying I just find it funny that’s all.
Attempted murder on us!
You are keeping Sanderson publication pace here 😅
I love brandon
Thank you for your channel. I've been looking for exactly this for so long, but could never find it. You're a beaut, my guy!
That DFW quote is so fire. Long live the king of postmodernist literary fiction!!
Yes more DFW!! Keep it coming!!
My novel is complex, but not like Wallace. I write in a minimalistic style, but that's because it's my natural author voice. I guess that means that it has to be some of the best minimalistic fiction or it won't do anything, just like you say. But it's great so I don't have to worry all that much.
I feel like there's got to be some sort of middle way. Infinite Jest is the most unfinished novel of all time. Shouldnt it also be accessible? Or should you have to break out the dictionary every other word?
What is a "logicbro"?
My favorite DFw work is A Supposedly fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
I much prefer his short fiction to his novels. Oblivion and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men are two of the best collections of short fiction I've ever read.
Bro thats Just James in the video thumbnail! Interestingly that guy used to say he wanted to write a book, not sure if he ever did though
Congratulations, Mate! 🎉
your place looks amazing btw
Thanks for believing in us
Could you make a video on Dune? or Frank Herbert ? Would be interesting to hear your take.
I have three or four already
It would be cool if you did some sort of video on Henry James
Are transition sentences that important for literature?
More than you can possibly imagine. If you don't have an editor, and have the ego to think you can write literary fiction, you need more transition sentences and beacons of alignment for readers than you expect. This is coming from someone who had a big ego with my fiction and had to consciously start adding them in even if it felt dumb.
I had a whole video where David Foster Walalce talks about this
@@WriteConscious I'll check it out, gotta get my mediocre writing better
Hey I'm dumb. Can someone explain this sentence from blood meredian to me? Is it just written in a weird way? I'd he just saying that he only put up the rifle to clean it? The but what us throwing my brain off
The sergeant never put the rifle up but what
he wiped and greased the bore
This reminds me of Aristotle's teachings on being virtuous 👍
What are the names of your cats? I've heard that cat people tend to be people who go against the grain and dog people tend to be people who go with the grain.
Depends on which way you pet them
Why are you dissing on science fiction and fantasy? Have you never read Gene Wolfe? Malazan? That stuff is infinitely better than something like DeLillo’s Underworld. I tried to read that 3 times. It’s garbage. I have read all the books. I know how to read. Was even an English major a long, long time ago. White Noise was great, that was not and there’s tons of science fiction that has more to say than some of these authors.
He’s shouted out Malazan, Dune, LoTR, and Sandman.
I am more Conan or Edgar Rice Burroughs kind of guy.
Kindness is the key. Vonnegut Jr. helps. Breakfast of Champions
Write like you're sharpening a spear that will pierce the reader's heart and remind them they've got one.
When I finished Blood Meridian I felt like McCarthy nailed every word to the page and let them all bleed into that masterpiece. It's definitely not my style of writing, but McCarthy's use of verbs is something all writers could benefit from reading and studying.
I like your videos and I've been following you for a year, but I think that for someone who claims to be a spiritual person (and maybe because of that) you think like a boomer. Fantasy and some video games have been more transformative for me than other books I've read. The Lord of the Rings and Dark Souls are worth more than a thousand pages of Wallace's delirium. One that didn't end well. Wake up Ian
Thing is what David Foster Wallace says is…
“The most dangerous thing about entertainment is its ability to mask emptiness with the illusion of meaning.”
The thing about Video games that you’ve mentioned are more Entertainment not much transcendental.
But yeah, dark souls could be transcendent sure…but how much lives have been saved by reading Infinite Jest?
thousands of men got their families back together, being relieved from drugs and any other types of substance abuse and got themselves out of suicide.
How much of that has been transformed over a Xbox game over like 12 years ago ?
Where lobbies just immaturely screaming the N-word and cause more headaches.
My wife studied Wittgenstein in college
WHY are you disrespecting science fiction and fantasy ?? they are objectively speaking the hardest things to write.
He doesn't seem to be a fan of romance fiction, either. I just roll with it.
I think his problem is more with the state of those genres in the modern day. I have to agree, pretty much every genre is flooded with awful writers churning out boring and soulless content, not art.
Make some Isaac Asimov content
I’d like to see him talk about Sci Fi content
Have you read red sky in morning
DFW defended Lynch against Ballazar - Getty on Lost Highway
what’s with the Just James thumbnail aha
Truth and Beauty read Longinus
I feel like you should focus more on being like an interesting well rounded person with stake in the world.
Kind of being like a perennial commenter on other people’s work/ worshipping at the alter of ‘art’ is a good path to becoming a critic but not a good one to becoming an actual artist. I feel like.
Deifying writers or actors or philosophers is kind of an expressway to being lame lowkey
Writers are suppose to not give an eff.
Full of complex idioms, to me, some have pretense and others hopeful rambunctious gesturing. It leaves me, at best, confused and, at worst, uneventful.
Considering he killed himself, I don't give a shit what Wallace thinks. If art doesn't sustain you, what's the point of it?
Uplift others
Well if you can't save yourself, there's the belief that at least your art will save other people and hoping that they will do better in life if you can't. Not that hard to see.
Yet you still came to a video explicitly promoting the opinion of David Foster Wallace.
It’s ok if you don’t get literary fiction. Just pick up a self help book for tips on how to live life.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995I came because I'm intregued by the paradox of writers and their art. Wallace was commercially and artistically successful, yet his life was (apparently) so empty of meaning and hope he killed himself. To me, this negates his work. If his work and (presumably) future work wasn't worth fighting for, why am I supposed to think this is going to be something meaningful in mine?