>>96699611
I think this just reveals that a lot of what is considered "good" is actually shit that just happened to be seen or was done first. If you tried getting published now writing like that, you'd be told to take a writing class.
Take, for example, JK Rowling. After Harry Potter made her famous, she started writing different books under a pseudonym, and was rejected by all the publishing houses she approached. One even told her to take a writing class. Then, "magically", her secret was leaked, her true identity revealed. ALL of those publishing houses rushed to accept her work, despite ALL (rightfully) thinking it was shit. Those Robert Galbraith books now sell ridiculously well, but they suck ass. They sell purely because of Rowling's previous success.
Same with Stephen King. He's hailed as probably the greatest horror writer of all time. Problem is that he's really bad at writing. He can write quickly, chucking out some half-assed book every few months, but it's always something that reads slow, tedious, and stilted. Take his concepts and give them to someone more talented, and they tend to make for good films, because people correct all of his mistakes, and yet Stephen King is still world famous and is always selling books. He got through on persistance, writing TONS of books whilst high and drunk, and hoping something would stick, and it did. Now, go to any bookshop, and see his book covers with half of it covered by his name, and the title of the book much smaller below it. Again, his name sells it.
Or look at the current meme favourite of Blood Meridian. A terrible book, really badly written, it rambles, it's tacky, it's full of exposition, etc. The only reason it's become popular now is because someone started memeing that the big fat white bald man in it is evil. And yet every "writer" in a course now gets the mantra driven into them of "show don't tell". Because that's the popular gimmick now, and the gate-keepers believe it.
