All I said was that Jennifer Hepler was a bad writer. How does that warrant a million messages calling me a misogynist? I hate the terrible trite nonsense she puts out for a living, not her gender. Sheesh.

warmoon-junior:

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endlessnine:

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smktty:

Truth. She’s just a bad, bad writer.

The anger that’s running through my veins right now.

And dayum, a PhD in literature and myth? You go, gurl.

are we really gonna do this on tumblr too, guys

I really don’t think she deserves any of the hate she gets (especially since she’s most likely not personally responsible for any of the features she’s talking about??)

I mean, I don’t think it was wise to say those things, necessarily

but she doesn’t deserve outright hate

I don’t care if she’s Stephanie Goddamn Meyer and writes with her own feces: The amount and “quality” of hate this women is getting is utterly disproportionate to anything she has or has not done. You don’t like her? You don’t like her work? That’s fine. Go ahead. This is a free country, etc and so on, but that’s no reason to comport yourself like a judgmental, childish dickhead.

Also: You don’t need to love what you make to be good at it. It helps, sure, but it’s not a requirement. I doubt the guys who work at sewage treatment plants are all super into shit, but that doesn’t stop them from being good at their jobs. Her job here is to write stories, not make games. The lady on the left is a game designer. The lady on the right is a writer. If you’re having trouble grasping the difference between those two jobs, maybe you shouldn’t be criticizing other people for their grasp of the English language. Just throwing that out there.

Writing is tied up in design a lot more than you realize. Someone has to write your quests and when they write those quests they have to write the objectives and the motivations and they have to be fun. If those things aren’t all tied together in an interesting way the experience tends to not be fun. If someone else designs a quest and tells a writer to fill in the story the chances that the story elements are uninteresting greatly increase. And if a writer who doesn’t care for gameplay designs a quest the chances of it being fun greatly decrease. Design and writing go hand in hand a lot more than you realize. If all you’re talking about is the books in skyrim or the background lore in some world you might be right, but the bulk of a game’s writing is directly tied to what you as a player are actually doing and if the writer doesn’t like being the player you might have a problem.

Come to think of it,  ”You don’t need to love what you make to be good at it.” seems to only apply to manual jobs, and not creative ones. Nobody respects a musician or a director with no love for what they do, because there’s no heart in what they do.

Truth. She’s just a bad, bad writer.