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Posted 07-15-2011 at 07:19 PM by Drew Keaton
Updated 07-15-2011 at 07:21 PM by Drew Keaton (error)

This is a rant! Be forewarned...

I'm an avid reader and I adore the classics. As an English major, I've everything from Spencer to Byron. Kafka, Blake, Shelley, and Burrows sit on my shelf. I've recently dipped my toe into the world of indie publishing. I've always supported the DIY musicians... this is no different. WRONG! I'm on my third indie and it's SHIT! Grammar errors, cliche plots, characters as flat as cardboard, themes as shallow as a mud puddle if at all...

I paid for this? If I can't talk about a book for at least two to four hours (preferably days) after a read, it's not worth my time. Snobby? Yes... but literature is a passion that runs deep in my soul. If you want to call yourself a writer... you better be prepared to stand toe to toe with writers!

As a goth boy, I love my vampires. Yes... I put you next to Stoker, Polidori, and Rice. Is that fair? Hell yes! You ask me to buy your book now give me what I came for here! Give me a novel like Verland: The Transformation for example. Better than Rice by far and that Twilight stuff better not even come near it! Stoker would be proud. Don't give me some cliche torture shit about a 'troubled vampire' and his captive or some other nonsense that reads like a how-to in a cheap MFA program.

Ok... I've gone off. But an indie author ripped me a new asshole when I told her I didn't like her book. Write a good one and I will let you know...
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  1. Old Comment
    Hmmm interesting blog. I would be interested in your critique of my writings as I too am sick of the overuse and abuse of vampires, and so in my fiction write about real humans, no vampires or lycans and so forth, just real people but in dark settings. Should you have the time and inclination, start with the one that made my initial reputation here, and my personal favorite: When Bats Sleep.
    https://www.gothic.net/boards/showthread.php?t=3414

    The favorite of members however is different: Town and Turret.
    https://www.gothic.net/boards/showthread.php?t=9841
    While I am proud that this story of mine is the 7th most viewed thread in all of Gnet Literature forum history, it is not my personal favorite, but it seems very popular with the members here.

    Be brutally honest, as you know very well that writers cannot improve unless they are made aware of weaknesses and faults that need correction.
    Thanks, and again: welcome to Gnet!
    Posted 07-15-2011 at 08:43 PM by HumanePain HumanePain is offline
    Updated 07-15-2011 at 08:51 PM by HumanePain
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    Oh, and I must warn you in advance: because of the 5 minute limit I could not correct all typos and misspellings. before my posts were locked in stone forever. Also, if you wish to continue reading more of my kind of fiction, search for All Threads Started by HumanePain and look for the ones started in the Literature Forum. Thanks again for your time.
    Posted 07-15-2011 at 08:45 PM by HumanePain HumanePain is offline
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    All I want to see is a good vampire novel with interesting characters and plots that don't make want to choke the person nearest to me. Let's both be on the look out for some new authors that don't make us rip all our hair out. Good blog, I wholeheartedly agree.
    Posted 07-16-2011 at 11:16 PM by GentlemanBeard GentlemanBeard is offline
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    [QUOTE=HumanePain;bt1402]Oh, and I must warn you in advance: because of the 5 minute limit I could not correct all typos and misspellings. before my posts were locked in stone forever. Also, if you wish to continue reading more of my kind of fiction, search for All Threads Started by HumanePain and look for the ones started in the Literature Forum. Thanks again for your time.[/QUOTE]

    I will head over... I love literature...
    Posted 07-18-2011 at 12:17 PM by Drew Keaton Drew Keaton is offline
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    Amazing and amusing.


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    Posted 11-26-2011 at 02:31 AM by TermPapers TermPapers is offline
 

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