Re: FIC: I Understand

["Alan Rogers" <masterofwords@xxxxxxxxxx>]

*grins* sorry about the defensiveness...I've been having to protect my ideas 
about writing on several fronts the last two days.

And thank you for the positive comments, Nathan -- I'm glad you're enjoying 
the 'Path' series.

~alan,the mad dragon


> From: Nathan Campbell <NathanCampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: ::BuffyWantsWillow:: FIC: I Understand
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:20:50 +0000


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I don't think Kris was trying to say you were wrong, or anything,
Alan, I've just been trying to get people to generally discuss the
style in which a perspective piece ought to be written - to reiterate,
I believe we've moved on :-). In other news, I've been reading more of
Path of Tears/Thorns lately, Alan, and I gotta just say: "Awesome!"
You do incredible work with characters and emotions; in just a few
short pages, you've gotten me to sympathize with Nathan (oddly enough
<g>), Beth, Natalie, and Alex, to... feel some modicum of what they
must be feeling as they go about their lives. You are really good at
this writing stuff, man :-).

Nathan Campbell
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When sun sprays the earth
with straight-falling flames,
a cricket rubs his wings,
scraping up thin sweet song.
-Sappho


Alan Rogers wrote:

>Again, my comments dealing with imagery were not so much for 'I >Understand'

>as much as they were for 'Straight Through the Heart'.

>~alan, the mad dragon





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Again, my comments dealing with imagery were not so much for 'I Understand' 
as much as they were for 'Straight Through the Heart'.

~alan, the mad dragon

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My 2 cents worth:  IMO, imagery isn't very
important, at least to me, in perspective pieces.
If there had been more imagery in the "I
Understand" fic, I probably would've just skimmed
it anyway.  I was so engrossed in what Buffy was
thinking and feeling that much of anything else
might have gotten in my way of enjoying or
understanding it.

I'm wondering, though, if the fact that I've
actually seen the episode referenced in "I
Understand" plays a part in my not caring so much
about the imagery?  But I'm sure that even if I
hadn't seen the episode; the bare minimum of
imagery, etc., is all that I personally need or
want in a perspective piece.

Hope that helps and isn't clear as mud.

Kris

--- Nathan Campbell <NathanCampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Aaahhh... that makes sense, Alan :-). Still, I
> do wonder if anyone
> else has an opinion about what sort of imagery
> should go into a
> perspective piece such as that which Dan wrote.
> I'm just curious as to
> how people think that sort of thing should go.
> Anyone else wanna get
> in on the discussion? Should we have a steady
> stream of images, as a
> reference for what's prompting the character's
> thoughts? Or just a
> purely internal piece, as I advocate? Something
> else? Or does it
> depend on the situation? I'm not tryin' to
> cause trouble, just trying
> to stir things up a bit here people... anybody?
> 
> Nathan Campbell
> NathanCampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> When sun sprays the earth
> with straight-falling flames,
> a cricket rubs his wings,
> scraping up thin sweet song.
> -Sappho
> 
> 
> Alan Rogers wrote:
> 
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I agree completely...my comments were more
generalized based on what I have <BR>
read overall -- it was somethings I saw in his
latest part of 'Straight <BR>
Through the Heart' that inspired most of my comments.

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