Generation Gaps and Generation Chasms

I am so tired of novels that have really good first lines and then decrease in quality exponentially as the paragraph goes along. Or novels that start out strong for a few pages and then go to Sucksville.

Seriously.

What if someone wrote a novel like every line was as important as the first line? That'd be frickin' cool.

But that's not what I came here to talk about.

( generation and escapism )

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

ZOMG! How is this not a thing of beauty?




460 pages of unadulterated manuscript-y joy. Okay, so it's probably not that good, likely never to get published, and possibly a waste of paper.

But it's just so *pretty*. Just being able to see it in real space, on paper.

Yep. This is definitely what I want to do with the rest of my existence.