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Matt Hein wrote in message ...
> Is it based on the computer game genre 'Riven' by any chance?
> Probably not, sounds deftly similar, though.
Nope, nothing to do with Riven. DE wrote two series of 6 books (double
trilogies), the first 6 being "The Belgrariad": the central character was
Belgarion, King of Riva. Hence the Rivan Codex - there's a lot of behind-teh
scenes and early-versions of stuff related to teh Belgariad in there, plus a
long essay at the beginning about how he (DE, not Belgarion! :-) ) goes
about creating fantasy worlds.
> > Matt, I second a lot of the advice given here. You have plot, you have
> > characters - you've got the creative part sussed! What you need is the
> > technique, the craft of writing, and that takes learning and practice. So • go
> > to it! I highly recommend a dictionary for those $5 words: if you don't • use
> > them correctly, you lose both the people who don't understand them AND the
> > people who do, leaving you with a rather small audience :-(
>
> Thanks for the advice! How far did you read into the
> story? (just evaluating. You're the test audience so I
> highly value those comments.)
I read about three screens worth.
> Attaining a creative equilibrium between the spectrums
> of extremity and vagueness
OK, what does this mean? I understand all the words individually, but the
combination doesn't make sense to me. Do you mean on a spectrum between
extremity and vagueness? If so, how is extremity an opposite of vagueness?
If there was going to be a spectrum, I'd put it between clarity and
vagueness. Or are there two spectra involved?
Kevin
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