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Luminosity
Personal blog · luminous.elcenia.comwritingculture
Luminosity is a personal blog at luminous.elcenia.com about writing and culture. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Luminosity, a Twilight rewrite by a LessWrong writer with a self-reflective narrator who writes things down. Commenters cite it for how writing processes thoughts and suggest it to fans of vampire fiction and HPMoR.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Pithy: "Writing things down is a special way of processing them for yourself." A fictional example of this that I love is (seriously) the Twilight rewrite Luminosity: https://luminous.elcenia.com/chapters/ch1.shtml . Bella writes everything down in her notebook and is unusually self-reflective.
Comment linking /chapters/ch1.shtml
on “10 years of writing a blog nobody reads”The thing that I find the most interesting is that a few people on the fanfiction groups I frequent absolutely loathe the story, and there's a sizable group that are ambivalent to it. What I haven't seen, however, is anyone here or on reddit criticize it in any way. Probably because this is not really Harry Potter fanfiction - the main character of this story is not Harry Potter, so many aspects of the story are rad…
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on “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky”Any HN readers who like books with vampires in and also enjoy "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" might want to be aware of Luminosity ( http://luminous.elcenia.com/all.shtml ) and Radiance ( http://luminous.elcenia.com/all2.shtml ), which bear something of the same relationship to Twilight as MoR does to Rowling's Potter (and are written by another prominent LessWrong'er). They contain both vampires and w…
Comment linking /all2.shtml
on “The Very Rich Indie Writer”