By "spend time," I mean that we have to pretend that the characters of a book exist within the frame of what has been written for them, but also that they exist while not on-screen (so to speak). They don't just disappear between the PoVs in which they are featured, and they have free will outside of those PoVs. The towns exist, their individual personalities, homes, families, friends exist, etc.
You could, I don't know, hang with them while off-screen, observe or *gasp* mess up the narrative!
Otoh, which work would you avoid like The Plague?
(chuckle)
You could, I don't know, hang with them while off-screen, observe or *gasp* mess up the narrative!
Otoh, which work would you avoid like The Plague?
(chuckle)
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
If you could spend time in any written work, which would it be? And why?
- 19/02/2010 12:07:18 PM
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Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. *NM*
- 19/02/2010 12:14:04 PM
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Alice in Wonderland! *NM*
- 19/02/2010 12:22:06 PM
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Iain M Banks's Culture novels
- 19/02/2010 12:40:48 PM
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That would make me nervous.
- 19/02/2010 12:45:24 PM
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Re: Iain M Banks's Culture novels
- 19/02/2010 04:12:56 PM
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(I'm just kidding; this would make me a horrible person *coughs
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- 19/02/2010 04:13:30 PM
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Re: Do you know, I actually cannot say.
- 19/02/2010 01:49:36 PM
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Re: OOH OOH I would love to be in the Jasper Fforde novels!
- 19/02/2010 01:51:11 PM
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Is it that obvious that I just read The Eyre Affair?
- 19/02/2010 01:56:21 PM
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Re: You think you are competition for Elizabeth?
- 19/02/2010 01:57:56 PM
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depends what "my role" can be
- 19/02/2010 02:21:54 PM
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One of those science fiction ones.
- 19/02/2010 02:58:55 PM
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O c'mon now, surely you can think of one?
- 19/02/2010 03:11:14 PM
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Not really. Problem with most works of science fiction is that...
- 19/02/2010 03:18:26 PM
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- 19/02/2010 03:12:17 PM
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Letters to Penthouse. *NM*
- 19/02/2010 07:29:13 PM
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Some really hot erotica. *NM*
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