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[seekingferret]

Evil pondering...

a)Post-Modernists are rip-off artists. They steal/borrow from anywhere they can, from other books, from movies, from advertisements, from boring philosophical tomes, from real life... It's the repurposing, rearranging, and reinventing that makes it art.

b)I need to fill 50,000 words.

c)It would not be out of place to fill many of those words with someone else's words, that is to say. This is probably outside the spirit of NaNo, but then again, I'm never sure I know what the spirit of NaNo is.

or

a)Post-Modernists are playful with the written page. They recognize that the novel is a structure full of conventions and they enjoy breaking those conventions.

b)My character is wrestling with the fact that she cannot stop talking without the story ending and consequently without her life ending. I want to work with this.

c)I need to fill 50,000 words.

d)I am going to have to figure out how to count meaningful blank space toward my wordcount.

Comments

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Yeaaaaaaah, very much against the spirit IMO.

If postmodernism requires plagiarism for its artistic vision to succeed, then fuck its artistic vision, and fuck postmodernism.

Also (as an FYI since I've mentioned this before, but vaguely), to comment on your Dreamwidth, I have to:
1. Go to your journal's page, clicking the reply button from my LJ feed.
2. Click to log in through OpenID.
3. Put in my OpenID info.
4. Re-navigate back to your journal page, since it doesn't automatically redirect.
5. Write my comment
6. Enter a frickin' CAPTCHA.

This is why I don't comment as much. :P

[seekingferret]

Heh, I mean, I tagged this entry as "cheating" and it's very much a joke. I wasn't proposing actually plagiarizing long sections of other peoples' novels and calling it postmodernism.

Still, I think there are numerous cases where genuine and worthwhile new works of art have been achieved by doing exactly that, and I take issue with "fuck its artistic vision and fuck postmodernism". Causing you to look at a work of art in a new context with new eyes is a true artistic endeavor.

I'm sorry it's such a pain to comment with OpenID. I'm going to investigate and try to figure out if there is a simpler way to comment.

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

I use openID to comment too, but I have it set to always remember me on my computer, so commenting here with openID is, to me, no less complicated than commenting on an LJ. And done this way, I never actually have to put in a CAPTCHA. To be honest, I never even really notice when I've ended up on dreamwidth because the process is so streamlined. Is it possible for you to set it to always remember you as well, or is that not an option given whatever your computer situation is?