https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/the-times-has-a-moment-with-if/ Nick Montfort Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:54:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/the-times-has-a-moment-with-if/comment-page-1/#comment-137139 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:54:30 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3790#comment-137139 Andy, thanks for both asking about that and linking to it here. I figured there was some much more nuanced point behind that, but it’s hard, even for a NYT writer, to get to such a point clearly in a short article about new types of writing.

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/the-times-has-a-moment-with-if/comment-page-1/#comment-137137 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:48:30 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3790#comment-137137 Funny, that line bothered me too, and I casually asked the writer about it on Twitter. His response, “Good writing is more than pretty sentences. I quite liked Blood & Laurels. I hope that was clear.”

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/the-times-has-a-moment-with-if/comment-page-1/#comment-130737 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:06:47 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3790#comment-130737 Yeah, it’s hard to say. It’s quite formidable to get mentioned in the Times at all, even in a way that involves some equivocation in addition to the praise. And, actually, the article is not really long enough to explain what the writer means there. So, I think my response to something like this would be … to write more interactive fiction.

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/the-times-has-a-moment-with-if/comment-page-1/#comment-130017 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:54:36 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3790#comment-130017 It’s always weird to read other people’s rundowns of your subculture. I wonder why he says “Ms. Short is not a particularly fine writer of sentences”? I’ve always liked her writing, but maybe it doesn’t pass muster in the upper echelons of society as represented by the New York Times?

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