SFWA lunacy

[swan_tower]

I liked this icon (courtesy of deedop -- it's available to take, right?) slightly better than timprov's "Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch," though the phrase in that one's good, too.

Where, you ask, did these phrases come from?

From this little rant. Will Shetterly posted it, but the thoughts aren't his, so don't flame on him. And oh, skip the first half to two-thirds of it. The actual content starts around the "In another way, too" paragraph.

So read that. And then reflect that the fellow writing it is the current vice-president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

He's an SF writer, and he hates the Internet.

And that, in a nutshell, is why younger writers see SFWA as an irrelevant waste of their time and money. Also why we younger writers need to join en masse and drag the thing kicking and screaming into the next century.

(No, I haven't joined yet. But I'm going to, and soon. And boy howdy is it going to be interesting if Scalzi gets elected president.)

Comments

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

I've really been enjoying reading the sfwa community over the last couple of weeks. It's this giant splendiforous culture clash - huge groups of people looking at each other going, "Dude, WTF? No, really?"