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J:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 18 Oct 2013, 09:46 ---So, cyborg gladiators in an alternate-history Rome? Cool. Not an easy thing to pull off in 500 words.
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--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 18 Oct 2013, 13:31 ---I imagine this as an exposition to a larger book in that setting.
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i've been fascinated for some time now with the iceberg principle. the idea of trying to tell a story without actually telling the story, using implication rather than exposition is something that that i toy with from time to time.
--- Quote from: Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon ---If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
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Masterpiece:
who are we waiting for again?
Loki:
Godot, I'd expect.
Thrillho:
Death.
J:
so here's an idea for the next exercize:
random topics like last time; however instead of making up a subject, we each pick a trope to drop into the hat, and around which the story has to be built.
for a bit of extra fun, roll a die or something to decide if said trope must be played straight, averted, inverted, subverted, played for laughs, etc.
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