Re: storytelling tricks

2000-11-19 Thread Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
The voices are telling me that Miriam said on Friday, November 17, 2000: - The user could be tugged gently toward the viewpoint where the important event is to happen. [snip] - The user could be attracted to the important pice of action by capitalising on psychology. If the plot

Re: storytelling tricks

2000-11-19 Thread Jed Hartman
Niclas wrote: Maybe transitions is the poor author's tool to tightening up a discontinous story? Maybe it's just storytelling make-up? 'fraid I disagree pretty vehemently. Unless your story takes place all in one room, it requires transitions. I would define a transition as any method

Fwd: Re: storytelling tricks

2000-11-19 Thread Miriam English
I am forwarding this for Niclas. Cheers, - Miriam Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:20:55 +0100 From: Niclas Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: Miriam English [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: storytelling

Re: storytelling tricks

2000-11-19 Thread Miriam English
[Miriam hits herself in the forehead with the heel of her hand] Why didn't I think of that?! This is a lovely idea -- they do it in noir detective stories too, in a different way. [voice-over] "I got a call from an excitable dame down on West 54th Street. She wanted to meet me at a speakeasy