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Steven Erikson's 'Life As A Human' Journal check it out!

#81 User is offline   Sinisdar Toste 

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Posted 14 September 2010 - 10:56 PM

very awesome. i love SE.

anybody else gonna do his exercise?
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Posted 15 September 2010 - 08:46 AM

agree with you! I would do the excercise if I had the time. maybe I will find time somehow.
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Posted 01 October 2010 - 01:24 AM

View PostSinisdar Toste, on 14 September 2010 - 10:56 PM, said:

very awesome. i love SE.

anybody else gonna do his exercise?


Hah. That's the first thing I did after finishing that particular post. The blog is fantastic.
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Posted 01 October 2010 - 06:07 AM

I thought SE couldn't get any more amazing. Then I read the blog... wow.
I will feel so ashamed now whenever I skim a single line. The insight on writing is very much appreciated.
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Posted 27 October 2010 - 03:58 PM

I'll definitely have to check this out..............
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Posted 25 December 2010 - 03:27 AM

Anyone know if SE is done with the Life as a Human blogging, or is there more to come?
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 03:14 PM

Steve's latest blog entry is here.

Go read - it's good.
"He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon". (Gothos' Folly)- Gothos
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 03:47 PM

That was really interesting. Thanks for pointing to it, Hetan :( I was just beginning to wonder whether there'll be another installment in the blog. I always end up having learned something when reading these entries.
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 04:19 PM

So, wait, is Lether a riff on the USA? :(
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 10:28 PM

Very interesting stuff. I am tempted to try out the exercise just to see what it can produce. I've written short pieces here and there before but never with anything but raw instinctual bursts of story. He truly is an inspiring individual that Mr.Erikson.
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Posted 04 April 2011 - 05:16 PM

It looks like we missed this one.

http://lifeasahuman....show-dont-tell/
Do you think there is any extra significance to it being posted on April 1st?
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Posted 04 April 2011 - 09:21 PM

Thanks for linking, kcf :)

As usual, I come out of reading one of these entries strangely.. happy and feeling somewhat more educated, shaking my head at SE's ability to put all of this into words and make it sound interesting and.. honest.

Especially in the later books I often felt that the characterization was amazing while we rarely - if ever, I honestly can't remember any scene - get told what the character's feeling - rather, we get shown. It makes me kind of happy to 'see' a character's gestures and imagine the tone of the dialogue and being able to 'understand' in spite of not being 'told' about it. It's part of the pleasure of reading for me. Cue a certain author who just up and shows us that it's not just me imagining things but intentionally done.

..yeah, I'm done fangirling now^^
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Posted 02 April 2012 - 07:25 PM

I just read all these today! Awesome insight into Steve's writing and personality!
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Posted 04 May 2013 - 11:21 AM

Hi all, Steve just informed me that he has put up a new entry discussing the writing process around an excerpt from Forge of Darkness! Check out the introductory post at Lifeasahuman.com. :apt:
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Posted 04 May 2013 - 11:15 PM

Cool, I'm looking forward to reading the deconstruction. Any idea when it will be up?
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Posted 05 May 2013 - 01:58 AM

No ETA that I'm aware of, but probably not too far out. :apt: I'll update you all when I know more.
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Posted 05 May 2013 - 02:12 PM

Ooh, now that excites me like a little girl at the candy shop!
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 12:40 AM

Bit late, but for those unaware, the excerpt has now been posted (deconstruction to follow in due time): Link Here.

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Posted 15 May 2013 - 01:53 PM

As promised, the first part of the deconstruction: Part One.

Enjoy. :p
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Posted 15 May 2013 - 03:35 PM

Wow.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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