jay508x01 Traveller in the arts
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(6/14/02 4:35 am) Reply
Centering your work.
In each piece that I read, I find a center that often does not involve a particular theme, or plot, but often just a simple idea taken as far as the writer can take it.
For example, my friend works his novel around one particular scene that he has been playing over in his mind for many years. Finally, he started writing the novel, developing the characters, plotting the story, making you wonder, all so that this one scene in his novel will be brought out to it's fullest. The results were astounding. He threw the biggest plot twist at me I have ever seen, and he made me feel his story more than any novel I have ever read. It was the best scene in a novel I have read to date.
What centers can you find?
My novel is centered around a plot and, hopefully, one of the most interesting endings of any series.
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As a reader I look for insight into character, as character opens up the world from the inside. A plot is simply a bunch of events in a framework until they happen to someone. It's the someone that puts the depth into a story. Take any great painting, even a non human landscape, it's the eye and heart of the artist that beguiles us. Nothing we see is neutral in practical terms, as we process it all with our subjective senses. We attach who we are to the landscape, become part of it. So if a story or poem or painting or piece of music contains a window into the heart of the artist, that's where I find my centre. My commonality.
jay508x01 Traveller in the arts
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(6/25/02 2:40 pm) Reply
Re: Centering your work.
My friend has the same phylosophy as you do.
Personally, I like to try and put interesting chaacters into a good situation. If you don't have a good enough situation there is little you can do with the characters, I have found. This goes for your "Villains" too. Often, the villain depicts what your other characters do. So the Villain should be one of your best characters, if you have one.
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Centering your work.
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