DO ALLOW ME TO BORE AT YOU SOME MORE.

[apiphile]

In which I am quite, quite insufferable, vain, pretentious, and prone to making charts.

Although the key idea for the structure of Pass The Parcel came about while I was pointedly ignoring someone at the Literary Festival at my university (I sat at the back of the talk and wrote notes for poems; reader, I pretty much wasted my tertiary education

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[celestineangel]

I don't have time to read this whole thing right at the moment, but I did read the first paragraph and part of the second, and it made me think of Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales duology. You might enjoy them. You might not. They're very much rooted in the concept that every character in any tale has their own story, and she actually tells you all of them. And I do mean all. It was a very new way to read a story for me, and disconcerting at first, but enjoyable in the end.

Now, it's home tiems for me! YAY NO MORE WORK TODAY. I'll read the rest of this when I get there. :D

[apiphile]

Hurrah, book recommendations already!

[celestineangel]

^_^* I'm always recommending something to someone, especially if it's a book by someone I know or have spoken to in some way or other personally, and Catherynne M. Valente is yuki_onna here. :)

Okay, I read the rest of it, and very honestly I think the vast majority of it went right over my head. o.o I mean, I understand the basic concept, I think, and it sounds like you've got something very interesting going on in there.

Then it gets into "constantly-evolving neuron-resembling [...] four-dimensional shape/processes" and I'm lost. ^_^*

[apiphile]

Oooh, that's a name I've seen around!

Then it gets into "constantly-evolving neuron-resembling [...] four-dimensional shape/processes" and I'm lost.

To be honest, I don't blame you. :D

[marika_kailaya]

Sometimes you go on these shiny, detailed tangents and I am sitting there grinning and nodding and Yes, That's Exactly It!, and then you finish it all off with, "and THAT is how pretentious I am!" I stop, frown, shrug, and nod again.

[apiphile]

I think we both know that a propensity for rolling in glitter does not keep one from being a pretentious arse. :P

[cribbins]

Oh man, you drew a graph. You are amazing.

As well you know, Del, I am a massive literary dork and this whole description of narrative as a morphing, four dimensional thing made me do a small flail while squeaking YES. THIS. Well played, sir.

With structure, I can only ever have a very loose idea of what's going to happen in my head; inevitably the bloody characters have other ideas of how they're going to react to a certain situation.

[apiphile]

*face* I drew a GRAPH. For LIVEJOURNAL. I should be shot.

Which does at least allow you a more organic approach to storytelling as you put them in a situation and then allow the rest to evolve from thereon?

[jackiesjunkie]

We had an electric typewriter when I was in school so that's what my younger sis and I learned on. A few years back, I bought a manual one cause I am mildly eccentric for things like that. Over the years, I've used all the choices listed but the old school typewriter is still the most fun.

[apiphile]

I used to a have a plastic-keys type-writer for kids and managed to smash all the keys by typing too hard. WINNER.

[strangecreature]

Your brain! Your brain! I love it so, because it makes mine do acrobatics in order to follow it around. (I only just figured this out, mostly through NaNo writing, but I sure as hell couldn't have turned it into a visual graph thing! *g*) Rock on.

[apiphile]

I think turning it into a graph thing was slightly easier because that's sort of how I imagined it (except it was silver and had little molecule shapes involved in it and um. My brain, not much with sense).