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posted by [identity profile] elenya54.livejournal.com at 04:18pm on 02/09/2007
they've got to _blend_.

That's the hard part. Several of your suggestions that were good never saw the light of day; it would have taken too much reworking of the material either side of the splice to make it flow.

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posted by [identity profile] mariole.livejournal.com at 04:21pm on 02/09/2007
Boy, I hear that. A story is organic. As a friend of mine said, you can't nail a board on the tree and pretend it belongs there.
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posted by [identity profile] elenya54.livejournal.com at 04:34pm on 02/09/2007
That's a good analogy.

I'm just killing some time before going to the writers' track for a talk about world building. Sadly, the Tolkien track is very elf-heavy/hobbit-light, and the fanfiction panel is all Elf/Sil writers (translation: look down their noses at hobbitfic as intellectually inferior), so I'm giving that a miss.
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posted by [identity profile] mariole.livejournal.com at 05:05pm on 02/09/2007
Elves _should_ look down their noses at hobbits... they're taller. *ha ha... hah?*

What gets me is how pretentious some of these Sil writers are. They take a name and make everything else up, using Tolkien's world as a basis. To me, that's just lazy original fiction writing. If they really have something to say that is so little based on a Tolkien, why not write their own stories?

Oh, well, I suppose people are entitled to enjoy Tolkien's world however they choose. I just don't get the snooty factor.

As for "world building", that's the tricky part. How much to put in, without boring/overwhelming/confusing the reader is the hardest thing (IMHO) for a fiction writer to get right.

Any good editors/writers there this year? There were some funny panels the year I went... also some real snoozers... :D
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