Or, “On Worldbuilding Discourse.”
- TTLY…: Old posts.
Your Worldbuilding Bores Me When They Tell You to Do This
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“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #1: Factfinding
My triumphant 28-minute return to blogging, and it concerns:
- 0. Preramble: On Pedagogy of the Oppressed;
- 1. Introduction to Factfinding: Who am I, and who are my students likely to be?;
- 2. Library of Babel and the Ur-Literature: What IS fantasy, anyway?;
- 3. Magic Kingdoms and Tremendous Trifles: Finding fantasy in the mundane;
- 4. Eggs-istential Problems (Or, “What’s the Fucking POINT??”): It’s the telepathy, stupid;
- 5. Finally! Finding Facts!
- TTLY: Vintage posts.
Terry Pratchett’s ‘A Blink of the Screen’
A little 10 minute review of ‘A Blink of the Screen,’ with highlights:
- There’s No Fool Like an Old Fool in an English Queue: English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish; all queues on this isle of ours are nightmares;
- Twenty Pence, With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting: the Christmas of 1843 was a weird ‘un;
- Theatre of Cruelty: That’s the way to do it!;
- The Sea and Little Fishes: Headology 101.
- TTLY…: Vintage posts
Explaining Fantasy to Mum(s?)
A 14-minute nosedive:
- Mum – Here Be No Dragons: What’s been happening since her last fantasy escapade;
- Wyrd Sisters’ Theatre Scene: The dialectic of Esme Weatherwax;
- Simulacra and Simluation – Or, “The Part of This Post That Mum Will Read on Holiday;”
- An Exercise Bike for the Mind: What I gave her for Mother’s Day.
Problem in Character, Not in Speech: When Terry Pratchett Missed
An 18-minute Zen on:
- Eye Dialect Reprise: Pratchett’s iconic character voices were made so through eye dialect;
- But.: And this is a big but;
- The Turtle Grows: “Cancelled” is just a euphemism for “I refuse accountability.”
Chessworld: An Annotated Bibliography of the Courier and Their World, ‘The Board’
On Dialogue Rules
When the Science in Your Storytelling is Sus
OoOoOoOoOo your genes determine that you will read to the end to learn about OoOoOoOoOo:
- Oh, it’s THIS guy again: Hey, I’ve seen this one… or so the Monomyth tells me.
- A Story of Science-telling: Criti-hyping evolutionary psychology (without the criticism) to explain storytelling;
- My God, Pure Paleoideology: What were we doing until 12,000 years ago? Was it all just evolution?
- On balance: Surprisingly, authors know what they’re doing. We should hear what they have to say.
Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Fifth Elephant’
