Monday, August 15, 2005
Dead Trees and Aluminum Poles
I think that Ive found my favorite style of writing.
Its fairly simple, it involves the amount of DETAIL integrated in each piece of fiction or fact that one may write.
In some writers cases, it seems as though throughout the story, unneeded information is presented to the reader, as an attempt to immerse the reader in the literary world further than the initial story may be able to do. THIS IS A MISTAKE. Certain writers (no offense is meant, I love the stories), such as JRR Tolkien, and Stephen King often put WAY too much detail in their stories. IE, LOTR: throughout the masterpiece, the literature is riddled with the ENTIRE length of hobbit songs, all of which seem irrelevent to the story, and all take up a considerable amount of paper to store! (In addition, without music, its difficult to sing along. Am I right?)
Next is Stephen King, who, while being a fantastic story writer, cant seem to resist describing EVERY error, EVERY misdeed, and EVERY dis-sadisfactory event that ever occured in the main characters (or all secondary characters) lives! I like knowing all the facts, but if what the mother of the protagonist of the story did in bed when she was 14 isnt relevent to the plot, THEN IT SHOULDNT BE PUT INTO THE STORY!!!
Ive found that I am unable to read these types of books, simply because I grow bored of reading mindless pointless "facts." So instead, I read a different style of book.
My favorite authors are those who dont spend TOO much time reminicing on the past, but instead focus on the matters at hand, and dont dwell on the past, unless its proves useful or explainatory to the events in question.
Dan Brown is a good example of this. Ive read all of his books in quick time, not just because they capture the reader, but because I quickly grow interested in the plot, and dont have to worry about useless past information that doesnt relate directly to the story.
Dean Koontz is another good example. Simple reliable storytelling, that doesnt dwell on character past far enough for a reader to lose interest.
This post probably seems either confusing, a large waste of a webpage, both, or one of the above, but there is reason and logic behind this madness!
Think of a dead tree. No leaves, just branches sticking everywhere, and not really intertwining as the tree stops rising. This is how I see DETAILED stories, like those of Tolkien and King. The start is simple, but gets cluttered and confusing as the plot grows.
Now, think of a straight aluminum pole, like that of a metal fence post. This is how I see BEARABLE-TO-READ books, like those of Koontz and Brown. Simple straight forward story telling, from start to finish.
That was the whole point of the article, sorry to disappoint...
just remember dead trees and aluminum poles when ur picking out a book from your favorite author ok?
The meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything =
chocolate mousse
Hey harper, you didn't know that i play guitar? well i do, not so good but i do...
You might like Frank Perreti. Try Piercing the Darkness or This Present Darkness.
Hey this pressent darkness, great book, I got it from my dad. Umm, you might want to learn some spanish, you have no idea of how great spanish literature is, for starters just the language is so romantic, then when the detail is given it's so vivid and exciting it makes you get in to what you're reading, I just finished reading El Hombre Triangulo, (the triangle man) Great book, in spanish culture there's lots of sexism involved, and this novel questions all masculinity and shows the problems of most spanish cultures, really it's great, and the tecniques he uses is incredible, he wrote it using the dominican accent, just slurring the words, I recommend it for whenever you learn spanish, so bye
Hey Harper, Please post something
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Its fairly simple, it involves the amount of DETAIL integrated in each piece of fiction or fact that one may write.
In some writers cases, it seems as though throughout the story, unneeded information is presented to the reader, as an attempt to immerse the reader in the literary world further than the initial story may be able to do. THIS IS A MISTAKE. Certain writers (no offense is meant, I love the stories), such as JRR Tolkien, and Stephen King often put WAY too much detail in their stories. IE, LOTR: throughout the masterpiece, the literature is riddled with the ENTIRE length of hobbit songs, all of which seem irrelevent to the story, and all take up a considerable amount of paper to store! (In addition, without music, its difficult to sing along. Am I right?)
Next is Stephen King, who, while being a fantastic story writer, cant seem to resist describing EVERY error, EVERY misdeed, and EVERY dis-sadisfactory event that ever occured in the main characters (or all secondary characters) lives! I like knowing all the facts, but if what the mother of the protagonist of the story did in bed when she was 14 isnt relevent to the plot, THEN IT SHOULDNT BE PUT INTO THE STORY!!!
Ive found that I am unable to read these types of books, simply because I grow bored of reading mindless pointless "facts." So instead, I read a different style of book.
My favorite authors are those who dont spend TOO much time reminicing on the past, but instead focus on the matters at hand, and dont dwell on the past, unless its proves useful or explainatory to the events in question.
Dan Brown is a good example of this. Ive read all of his books in quick time, not just because they capture the reader, but because I quickly grow interested in the plot, and dont have to worry about useless past information that doesnt relate directly to the story.
Dean Koontz is another good example. Simple reliable storytelling, that doesnt dwell on character past far enough for a reader to lose interest.
This post probably seems either confusing, a large waste of a webpage, both, or one of the above, but there is reason and logic behind this madness!
Think of a dead tree. No leaves, just branches sticking everywhere, and not really intertwining as the tree stops rising. This is how I see DETAILED stories, like those of Tolkien and King. The start is simple, but gets cluttered and confusing as the plot grows.
Now, think of a straight aluminum pole, like that of a metal fence post. This is how I see BEARABLE-TO-READ books, like those of Koontz and Brown. Simple straight forward story telling, from start to finish.
That was the whole point of the article, sorry to disappoint...
just remember dead trees and aluminum poles when ur picking out a book from your favorite author ok?
The meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything =
chocolate mousse
Hey harper, you didn't know that i play guitar? well i do, not so good but i do...
You might like Frank Perreti. Try Piercing the Darkness or This Present Darkness.
Hey this pressent darkness, great book, I got it from my dad. Umm, you might want to learn some spanish, you have no idea of how great spanish literature is, for starters just the language is so romantic, then when the detail is given it's so vivid and exciting it makes you get in to what you're reading, I just finished reading El Hombre Triangulo, (the triangle man) Great book, in spanish culture there's lots of sexism involved, and this novel questions all masculinity and shows the problems of most spanish cultures, really it's great, and the tecniques he uses is incredible, he wrote it using the dominican accent, just slurring the words, I recommend it for whenever you learn spanish, so bye
Hey Harper, Please post something
Post a Comment