#the Pulp Writer

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Jersey Style Photography, Mark Kranjak

“The Pulp Writer”

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Lisa🪽

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Fanart for Lovely Lady RPG, of Ghost and the Pulp Writer on a lovely walk.

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By Todd Alcott

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people in the archaeology subreddit digging up the corpse of indiana jones again for the annual discourse. somehow seem to have forget the most important scene in the film if you’re critiquing his status as an academic

[toruandmidori]

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Pulptober 2024 Day 17: Aaron Allston

I don't have a lot to say about Doc Sidhe other than it was an interesting update on the idea of Doc Savage with a fantasy twist.

But I knew the author, Aaron Allston, and respected him.

Open Thread: RIP Aaron Allston – SKJAM! Reviews

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guess who forgot about this blog again? 🙈

anyway I finally have a fic on my ao3 now...

it is not any of the fics I've been working on and talking about here, lmao, it's something else:

PULP MUSICALS FIC, BABEY!!!!

here's a summary that my friend @snarky-wallflower helped me come up with:

Benjamin usually thinks of the Stratfords and their stories whenever he sees the moon. ... It’s only now, standing in a brick room with Margaret in his arms and looking out at that odd rock—closer than ever and still so far away—that he suddenly becomes fully aware of just how much space Margaret has started to occupy in his mind. These last few weeks, he hasn’t been able to catch even a brief glance at the moon without thinking of her, too, and wondering if she would be watching it that night, if she’d get her answers this time.

OR

In those final hours aboard the brick satellite, Benjamin Park makes amends and falls into the orbit of Samuel Stratford and Margaret Cavendish, fast and bright. (aka, a Benjamin Comes Along AU with a twist!)

[m1ssnovember]

If I suddenly don’t know who I am

I re read crime & punishment, the secret history, re watch detachment, blast stairway to heaven and the soundtrack to Kill Bill 1&2 and pulp fiction, have a matcha , eat some sushi, remind myself of my depression and trauma, experience some blood, pick a pomegranate to pieces, speak & learn Latin, write ♾️ poems

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[evaristo-velez]

Trust Your Reader

This post is addressed to myself, though read along if you need help editing.

Adverbs and over-description are both symptoms, among many others, of being unable to trust your vision with someone else. In my case, I want to extract an exact image and put it in paper; that way I know I am telepathically linked with my reader.

Alas, that's not how it works. I'm sure when you read a description of a character, you see someone different than I see, and different from what the author saw.

That's okay! Perfectionism will slow writers down. Put in descriptions, but know that too much is as bad as none at all.

Should I describe a romantic love interest in detail from head-to-toe? How important is every single detail?

This circles back to a philosophy I have (from fighting games, of all places): LEAN.

Have fun in your early drafts. Hell, save the most bloated version of your story to read for yourself. For the rest of the world? Get your descriptions, dialogue, and prose lean.

How much weight is added by use of an adverb that wouldn't be added from a stronger word? Does the word necessitate being stronger? Is the adverbial phrase for you or is it crucial to explain the current scene?

I'll bloat my earlier drafts, add a lot more, and then scale back before the alpha reader/editor phase. This will come with time, but I hope you keep these tips in mind.

Keep writing.

[iwantyoutopulpme]

I cannot stop thinking about this...

Taken from "So It Started There" by Nick Banks (2023)

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ACETRONAUT

read it here! - link

also heads up, cw: for topics such as child abuse and trauma. a lot of this story is about the effects of what trauma does to a person and how a person reacts to it.

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Shakespeare was the pulp writer of his day (mad love here but be honest/real about it).

He put a fucking bear in a scene cuz someone paid him to.

You've probably seen that post floating around on off about the lit fic/creative writing teacher who poo-poo'd a student's love of Terry Pratchett (one of the greatest to ever play in this sphere) because he was a "pulp" writer.

Well, so was Shakespeare. And that's not a bad thing. But get off your high horse about it. The pulp writers shaped and defined the arts. You wouldn't have noir/detective stories like we do without Raymond Chandler, which means very likely, no urban fantasy in one of the most popular ways - like Dresden Files and all of the similar styles of that. Of course the genre is broader than that. Or cyberpunk in many ways, which is a SF evolution of the noir genre in many ways similar critiques done in a high tech world of corruption in govt/business levels, societal issues that the early noir also tackled and brought up, social inequality, all of that.

Christmas was redefined by a pulp writer, Charles Dickens.

Robert E. Howard was a pulp writer with Conan. How much did that do for Sword and Sorcery. And there are many more.