At 11:32 AM 11/26/99 +0800, Jiro Maeda wrote:
A livelier stew...ewww!!!! damn I didn't know we writers have something
in common with Hanibal the canibal (did I spell that right?)
Nope. It's double 'n' both ways.
I disagree
with you in this point mi amigo, I believe that a story is like a BT,
you know like the ones in the show BTX. Anyway to give it life you have
to lend it some of yours, once it starts moving though it generates it's
own life. You don't stop there though, you have to be in complete
sinchronicity with your BT (the fic of course), you must enjoy it as
much as it supposedly enjoys you, makes sense? (It don't make much sense
now that I'm reading it but the concept is good right?) Anyway the only
technique to disperse your disillusionment is to start all over, I mean
I got my hopes and dreams smashed to the ground while seeing the girl I
treasure get hers, ain't life a pissed off bitch? But we gotta move on,
we got to struggle, that's what makes us alive, right?
I didn't say that stories only drew life from the exact experiences the
author has. What I meant was that a fic 'sounds' good to the reader if it
draws from real emotion. How can you write about the kind of rage that
makes you want to kill someone is you've never felt it before? Yes, stories
take lives of their own, I'm not debating that. But they have to start from
somewhere, and that was the point.
Thanks for your comments.
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