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You know what they say. It isn't Science unless it's Written Down.

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  • 411 weeks
    "The Last Illusion" is So Long!

    I mean, it is pretty long but not that long. Certainly, at this point, the largest continuous narrative I have ever written, if I count all that I have that is not hosted on this website. In total, it will have, like, seven Acts or something. I have the entire plot figured out, for the most part, but just the other day I noticed a really unfortunate knot I will have to untie about halfway

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  • 414 weeks
    What "The Last Illusion" is Not About

    Those of us that have read about Trixie and Ditzy Doo eventually become aware of a few patterns.

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  • 417 weeks
    The Difficulty of Third Person "Objective"

    At this point, I am mostly here to complain.
    Those who have been reading my story "The Last Illusion" may know by now what I am talking about. The story is read out of a book. The book writes itself. But, "most" of the time, it is not a character. In fact, it seems literally incapable of treating itself as one.

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  • 419 weeks
    Inspiration via the Loss of Magnificence

    If I were to think back through all of the thinking I did about "The Last Illusion", I could probably point to a number of things as its inspiration. But, there is one thing that I think has stuck the hardest after all the visions and revisions.

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  • 420 weeks
    Regarding my Aversion to Adventure Stories

    Truth is, most of the time I find adventure stories very dull. As if, while I read, there is something much more interesting happening later that I am anxious to get to. The beginning is interesting, the end is certainly something, but the middle? Characters and places that I will not be penalized for forgetting.

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Mar
9th
2016

Regarding my Aversion to Adventure Stories · 8:00pm Mar 9th, 2016

Truth is, most of the time I find adventure stories very dull. As if, while I read, there is something much more interesting happening later that I am anxious to get to. The beginning is interesting, the end is certainly something, but the middle? Characters and places that I will not be penalized for forgetting.
Though I am not some kind of intense literary scholar. My vocabulary may be exquisite, but by no means am I actually expert at this kind of thing.
The point that I'm trying to make is that, in an adventure, there are often a lot of details. Details about setting and context that I, as a person with my own tastes, cannot often aspire to care about. Especially when I know that a lot of these details exist only to turn and prod the protagonists a certain way to illicit a certain reaction. Granted, this reaction is the most fun to read about. But I would rather not fuss with the goop in-between.
A nice kind of adventure story makes these details compelling. The setting is just as an intriguing character as any. But this is not easy, because it often involves making the setting simple, which runs the risk of being boring, or exceedingly accessible enough to in itself be unoriginal. Unfortunate.
In "The Last Illusion", I take the simple route. Despite its tags, the story is not about the adventure. I take care to remove Trixie and Ditzy Doo far away from the setting because it is not that important. This comes to the effect of making the story a little pedestrian at times, but, like I said earlier, the details of the setting are not important, so I neglect to write about them. Moreover, the story is about the characters' ideals.
I like to think it makes my story interesting. A pair of characters, prompted to interact together in a compelling way. It is a series of adventures stacked on top of each other, each having the characters learn something new about how they live their lives. I hope that I can demonstrate this, pretentious generalizations aside.

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