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wyld_dandelyonThat's what stories are, right? Shared hallucinations?
If you do them right, anyway, you suck the reader in so for a while, the protagonists problems loom larger in the reader's mind than their own, and the beautiful forest or dreary dungeon or wherever that the story is set is more real than the kitchen or bedroom or "throne room" that the reader is actually sitting in.
All the techniques of writing--point of view, plot, characterization, even grammar--all of that is just the foundation--the scales and vocal warmups, the finger exercises, if you will.
What matters to the reader is being sucked into the hallucination. They only care about the grammar or point of view if it jars them out of the illusion of being there.
So here's to creating the best possible hallucinations out of imagination and pixels!
H is also for Haiku, and it is poetry month, after all:
The blank screen awaits
I could write anything here
But first, I must start
If you do them right, anyway, you suck the reader in so for a while, the protagonists problems loom larger in the reader's mind than their own, and the beautiful forest or dreary dungeon or wherever that the story is set is more real than the kitchen or bedroom or "throne room" that the reader is actually sitting in.
All the techniques of writing--point of view, plot, characterization, even grammar--all of that is just the foundation--the scales and vocal warmups, the finger exercises, if you will.
What matters to the reader is being sucked into the hallucination. They only care about the grammar or point of view if it jars them out of the illusion of being there.
So here's to creating the best possible hallucinations out of imagination and pixels!
H is also for Haiku, and it is poetry month, after all:
The blank screen awaits
I could write anything here
But first, I must start
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Date: 2012-04-12 09:40 am (UTC)So I experience stories as a shared narrative, rather than a shared non-true perception.
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Date: 2012-04-12 11:46 pm (UTC)But at the core, what I'm saying is that the experience, while it's being lived, distracts a person effectively and thoroughly from the real world they are actually inhabiting. Is that something you get to enjoy? In other words, do you become immersed in the shared narrative?
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Date: 2012-04-13 12:03 am (UTC)I'm particularly likely to fall into a book and get lost for hours if my "real" life is being very stressful. Coming back to myself crosslegged on the floor of Safeway with my butt going numb is one of those signs I need to take better care of myself.
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Date: 2012-04-13 12:31 am (UTC)