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the real, the unreal, and the Doctor
Aug. 17th, 2023 11:24 pmDoctor Who is not quite the perfect endless series, for all its virtues. It hits the same issue as the superhero behemoths: the relative weight of the historical real and the fictional real. And it does not manage to thread the needle there.
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series of days
Aug. 16th, 2023 10:51 pmThere is one substantial problem with an endless series, even when you deal with the character development part by off-loading it onto secondary characters who come and go.
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knowledge is power
Jun. 4th, 2023 12:07 amThere's one advantage of the erratic, one-of-a-kind nature of superpowers.
There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
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There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
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philosophy of unceasing series
Jan. 26th, 2023 09:35 pmWas in some discussion of series lately. . . .
If you want a series that goes on and on and on --
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If you want a series that goes on and on and on --
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your canon, writ in air
Oct. 24th, 2022 10:09 pmAnd I thought the trains were an issue. . . .
There's a neat plot element. Among all the other ball bearings I am trying to corral and stick together into a story, there's neat little one that requires a character to hurt himself by doing something. Not as a consequence of doing something, something that depends on circumstances and setting, but directly by doing something.
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There's a neat plot element. Among all the other ball bearings I am trying to corral and stick together into a story, there's neat little one that requires a character to hurt himself by doing something. Not as a consequence of doing something, something that depends on circumstances and setting, but directly by doing something.
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juggling ideas
Oct. 13th, 2022 11:46 pmGot ideas. Got a lot of ideas. They go together nicely but do seem to spell out a series.
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metaphysics and the series
Oct. 1st, 2020 11:40 pmThere are many good reasons for shoving the fictional metaphysics of your world off-stage, but one of them is that your story may turn into a series.
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series and the world
Jul. 29th, 2020 11:59 pmOne thing a series needs is vistas.
If you keep on doing the same old thing in the series, you bore the reader. If you keep on introducing new things, after a time the readers wonder why they never heard of them before.
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If you keep on doing the same old thing in the series, you bore the reader. If you keep on introducing new things, after a time the readers wonder why they never heard of them before.
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short story cycle
Nov. 8th, 2019 11:49 pmIt's a good thing I remember that this is a cycle -- by dint of reminding myself often -- because the outline for the fourth story is different from the others.
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Hmmm. . . that's the things about series. The events of one story set the timeline of another.
When the oldest children born to superheroes are about twelve, it therefore follows that even if the superheroes refrained in the first years, when they did not know how it would affect their children, it's about twelve years plus a little wiggle room since the heroes started to appear.
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When the oldest children born to superheroes are about twelve, it therefore follows that even if the superheroes refrained in the first years, when they did not know how it would affect their children, it's about twelve years plus a little wiggle room since the heroes started to appear.
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do stop thinking about tomorrow
Oct. 20th, 2018 06:14 pmPlugging along on my D&D outline, knowing there are two potential sequels springing from issues not resolved in this book. . . .
Trying to ignore them.
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Trying to ignore them.
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series and episodes
Mar. 28th, 2018 11:38 pmBeen bugged by two series I have read recently. They should be either more, or less, episodic.
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order in a world
Jan. 23rd, 2018 11:29 pmHave three stories floating about in a world. They would need to be in some kind of sequence.
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Immediately inspired by some talk about a TV show. where, of course, there's always the actor problem. But even in prose. . .
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chaos and sequels
Aug. 5th, 2016 11:28 pmA Dark Lord or other such Evil Force is a nice unifying thing for a story, and still more a series. However many minions he has, however many ramifications the plot has, the tale has a nice unity.
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the series as a work of art
May. 3rd, 2016 07:27 pmA series can be viewed as a unified work of art. Something that hangs together.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The origin of the lengthy Oz series -- a series that soon showed that demanding the author continue is not always wise -- but since they are at the beginning, the series is still going strong.
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The origin of the lengthy Oz series -- a series that soon showed that demanding the author continue is not always wise -- but since they are at the beginning, the series is still going strong.
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