can't get there from here

[flambeau]

Back while I was writing my sesa and yuletide stories, I really wanted to do an lj post about writing habits and writing techniques. Now I don't have to be secret any more, I'll try to make this post be that post

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[halimede]

Good thing nopseud reminded me of this post. I've been googling my little ass of because over on rec.arts.composition Graydon said something extremely clear about this, but I forgot to save the post and he has x-noarchive on. But! Someone else quoted it, I remember this clearly, so I should be able to find it through google groups, no? No. Not so far.

Anyway, I can't say it anywhere near as clearly, but he said something about a story being the intersection between level of detail and trajectory, only when he said it, it made sense. *g* Rephrasing clumsily, I think it's something to do with dpi, as in dots per inch, as in resolution. I think about --if I'm not completely stuck, mind you!-- what's going to happen, and then I think about at what resolution I'm going to paint this in. Is it an icon, or a full-blown manip with layers and grains of sand and texture and spiffy lighting and swirls and clouds and sleight of hand? So they get up and make the bed etc. if I'm working high resolution or if it's a nifty icon transition (in which case you probably can't see the thread-count of the sheets, unless that's all you see, a little flash of textile in a 100 x 100 pixel box).

I'm not sure this explanation helps much. I can explain the explanation though: my mother signed me up for ballet at a very young age, and this whole words thing? Not my primary mode of expression, in many ways. And yet here I am, trying to dance in a text based medium.

[flambeau]

something to do with dpi, as in dots per inch, as in resolution

Mm, I like that way of looking at it. Though my head translates it into painting style and insists that I'm an obsessive pointillist. *g*