Thought for the Day Storytelling is....

[Paul Whybrow]

“Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom.”

Chuck Wendig

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Yup, he looks like a guy who drops his characters in boiling oil.

 

[Peyton Stafford]

I read part of one of his novels. When his sadistic right-wing terrorist raped the nice pastor in the ass, I stopped reading. Cruelty is his theme.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Ah. I remember where I heard his name. It was mentioned by a young man who strangled his girlfriend then went on a hike and shot himself. (Alligators cleaned his bones afterwards.) Before this murder-suicide tragedy, when they were merely a quarrelling couple pretending to have a great van-trip experience, the young murderer named this author as his favourite.

I shan't be reading his books.

 

[RK Wallis]

Yup, he looks like a guy who drops his characters in boiling oil.

I read Blackbirds. Pretty cruel. Up there on my tolerance, but I like his writing.

 

[Serra K]

Ah. I remember where I heard his name. It was mentioned by a young man who strangled his girlfriend then went on a hike and shot himself. (Alligators cleaned his bones afterwards.) Before this murder-suicide tragedy, when they were merely a quarrelling couple pretending to have a great van-trip experience, the young murderer named this author as his favourite.

I shan't be reading his books.

Haha! I read Wanderers and Wayward and now he's up there as one of my favourite authors too.