Ham? Cheese? All available soon at your local pastiche-ery!

[wytchcroft]

There was blood on the floor -

No, wait - let me start again.

In fan fiction, a beginning is a delicatessen nascent with the promise of blooming into a full pastiche-ery.

How was that for an opening?

Comments

[sanguinepen]

Have you read KOP by Warren Hammond? Noir scifi.

[wytchcroft]

nope. cheers for the rec - i loves me some noir, all sizes.

[stoshagownozad]

oh I wonder if the book you mention was ever translated into Russian :)
Wish I could read it!
(maybe even in English)

[wytchcroft]

and you know, it even inspired a graphic novel! 99 ways to tell a story by Matt Madden - which is excellent too.

[stoshagownozad]

wow surprized!
I'm not familiar enough with graphic novels - this genre was not developed in former SU at all (except for the children 5-8 years old maybe... we had a kind of something...)
So I think 99 times told story - expressed in a graphic form - it should be quite a challenge for the author

[wytchcroft]

it drove him a bit mad he says! LOL:)

but it does show how far the medium has come, when i was young it was just comics, comic strips and now - wow, non-linear experimental whatever all kinds of stuff!

[beshter]

I'll have to pick up that book. I know one of my greatest challenges is getting "style", especially when working in my own stuff.

I get into character's heads all right, that comes from years of playing role-playing games. It is more the style i have problems with.

[wytchcroft]

you do good dialogue as well, don't forget!