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- From: ehudon@reed.edu (Elizabeth Hudon)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: World Creation
- Keywords: setting vs. story elements
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.090559.10889@reed.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 09:05:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug26.090559.10889
- References: <14598@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: Elizabeth Hudon (ehudon@reed.edu)
- Followup-To: World Creation
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- Alan writes:
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- >I used to be a perfectionist, wanting an imaginary universe to pop full
- blown into my head. I now believe that the patchwork creative process
- >(which is the only way it seems to work) is wonderful, because the
- >tension between two wild ideas often produces an interesting explaination.
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- Yes! This *perfectionism* is a huge obstacle for me. I choke on world
- creation, because I feel so uncomfortable with what I feel are
- arbitrary decisions about a world which will ultimately come off
- as artificial or affected.
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- I also hesitate to fill a story with too many details about the way
- things work, which I suppose is an indication that I haven't found a
- to balance setting and the demands of the storyline.
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- Any others with similar problems?
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- Elizabeth (ehudon@reed.edu)
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