Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

[bdude]

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A great author. You will be remembered. :beer:

edit. some of the best rules to live by when writing. snagged from wikipedia

On pages 9 and 10 of his book, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut stated that there are eight rules for writing a short story.

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

 

[3chordcharlie]

:frown:

so it goes.

 

[Howard]

RIP

 

[TheTony]

 

[fierydemise]

RIP

3chordcharlie beat me to it but I have to say it
So it goes.

 

[Dirigible]

 

[anxi80]

[after Diane gives Thornton an 'F' for his report, which was actually written by Kurt Vonnegut]
Diane: Whoever *did* write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!
[cut to Thornton's dorm suite]
Thornton Melon: [on the phone] ... and *another* thing, Vonnegut! I'm gonna stop payment on the check!
[Kurt tells him off]
Thornton Melon: F@#$ me? Hey, Kurt, can you read lips, *f@#$ you*! Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum!
[hangs up]

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: anxi80
[after Diane gives Thornton an 'F' for his report, which was actually written by Kurt Vonnegut]
Diane: Whoever *did* write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!
[cut to Thornton's dorm suite]
Thornton Melon: [on the phone] ... and *another* thing, Vonnegut! I'm gonna stop payment on the check!
[Kurt tells him off]
Thornton Melon: F@#$ me? Hey, Kurt, can you read lips, *f@#$ you*! Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum!
[hangs up]

My first thought as well...

 

[judasmachine]

He's not dead, he's just dislodged in time.

 

[Martin]

So it goes...

 

[rocadelpunk]

Originally posted by: Martin
So it goes...

"be kind!"

 

[EvilYoda]

Damn...didn't a major magazine just recently do an interview with him? Well, prepare for a lot of new readers...and prepare for a lot of questions and "wtf"s.

 

[fleshconsumed]

RIP

 

[thujone]

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

much <3

 

[BoldAsLove]

wow...sad...excellent excellent man.

 

[Lifted]

damn

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
:frown:

so it goes.

My very first thought as well. RIP.

 

[Mucho]

 

[Jawo]

RIP...Slaugterhouse Five was such a good book...inspired bby one of the worst tragedies of WWII by the Allied forces (firebombing of Dresden).

 

[Gibsons]

:beer: to Kurt, who made me think and made me laugh.

 

[eits]

cat's cradle will always be one of my favorite books... rip

 

[Accipiter22]

and so it goes. I read Galapagos in like 7th grade. I liked it so much I tore through every other book he had written over the next year or so. I just re-read Galapagos over the summer of '06. I had always meant to write him and tell him what his books meant to me. He sure had a full life though

 

[ggnl]

?Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It?s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It?s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you?ve got about a hundred years here. There?s only one rule that I know of, babies ? ?God damn it, you?ve got to be kind.? ?

RIP

 

[Tobolo]

:beer::beer:

 

[daveshel]

He was a victim of a series of accidents. :wine: