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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
And that is the stupidest thing ever told (and told, and told, and told) to aspiring writers. Joe Haldeman, coincidentally, had the best response to that piece of foolishness...
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Great quote from Haldeman!
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Originally Posted by Joebill
As for 'writing what we know'... if we all did that, no sf or fantasy stories would be written.
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The stupidest part about that particular "write what you know" message is that it came from two imagined space travelers on an imagined space ship in an imagined solar system trying to prove an imagined theory about imagined aliens!
I am shocked that a group of writers that have never been in space, yet were writing a "space show," somehow felt that message needed delivering, even though they were
doing exactly the opposite of that message!
TNG and beyond bought into the "Political Correctness" ideology IMHO, and I firmly believe "write what you know" stems from that ideology. So while it's a blaring contradiction, it makes a kind of perverted sense how it ended up in the show.
I love Star Trek, some of my favorite episodes had messages that I did not agree with. I am happy to say, however, that this was a crappy message in a similarly crappy episode!
-Pie