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"leonard hoffman" <glencaer@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> My advice is to provide only what detail is REQUIRED by the story, that • is,
> what details are important to the development of the characters and the • plot.
> For example, if you talk about a princess wearing a purple dress- is there
> anything important in that dress? is purple saying something, even if
> metaphorically, to the audience? if it isn't, then who cares? This can be • a
> difficult concept to accept, because writers tend to put more detail in • rather
> than less.
I don't agree. Any story giving only the relevant details will feel 'thin'.
Some details become relevant just by beeing there. Of course, something must
be left to the imagination of the reader, but not too much :-)
Take Tolkien, for example: in most of LOTR it is completely irrelevant (for
the story) how the trees look, or what happened there 1000 years ago, but
with all the details given, one really feel the story is describing a
_reality_, not just a neat story idea where imagination should 'fill in the
blanks'. There are almost no blanks...
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
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| (...) This is precisely why writing is an artform and not a science. There is no real way to measure exactly when something is too detailed or not enough, and there is always variation in your readers. My advice is to provide only what detail is (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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