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Posts Tagged ‘Time Machine’

The TARDIS Principle for Writing

November 5, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

One thing that I dislike, but that seems to be rampant in the genres of fantasy and science-fiction, is over description.  Unless it is necessary, don’t tell me what color the tiles of the castle’s roof is.  If it’s Autumn, a short description of the color of the leaves is good, but a long, multi-paragraph description of all sorts of minutia that tells me it is Autumn is overkill.  Yes, occasional delving into literary prose is fine.  But fantasy and science-fiction authors do way, way, way too much of it at times in my humble opinion.

Those of us who read these sorts of stories do have imaginations after all.  Let us use them.  We can easily envision what the countryside our heroic knight is traveling through might look like.  So, again, unless it is necessary to the story, there is no need to go into great detail.  Besides, as I have already learned, great detail can lead to great problems with continuity.  The more detail you put in, the more you had better make sure that you remember it later on when you write the next scene where that detail comes up. Read more…

Categories: General Things, The Writing Process, Writing Style Tags: All Sorts, Autumn, Continuity, Countryside, Darkened Moon, Doctor Who, Eye Color, First Draft, Heroic Knight, Imaginations, Literary Prose, Minutia, Paragraph Description, Relative Dimension, Science Fiction Authors, Short Description, Spacecraft, Tardis Time, Tiles, Time Machine

Best Fantasy/Fiction/Sci-Fi Books I Ever Read (21 Through 30)

September 23, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

This is a continuation of my previous lists:
Best Fantasy/Fiction/Sci-Fi Books I Ever Read (Top 10)
Best Fantasy/Fiction/Sci-Fi Books I Ever Read (11 Through 20)

21. 1984 by George Orwell

(4.75/5 stars) Read more…

Categories: Book Reviews, General Things, Good Stuff Tags: 1984 By George Orwell, Ayn Rand, C S Lewis, Continuation, Dream Of Electric Sheep, Fantasy Fiction, Fountainhead By Ayn Rand, George Orwell, H G Wells, Magician, Margaret Weis, Margaret Weis And Tracy Hickman, Nephew, Orson Scott Card, Philip K Dick, Richard Matheson, Sci Fi Books, Time Machine, Time Of The Twins, Tracy Hickman

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