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Voice Direction

Posted on November 20, 2018 by

I spent a long time trying to come up with a snappy phrase for the literary concept I want to discuss. My first idea was to call it Point Of Observation, as a corollary to Point Of View, then I … Continue reading →

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The Invisible Character

Posted on November 11, 2018 by

Recently two posts over on The Emporer’s Notepad, one on Deep POV and one on 1st Person Narrators, helped clarify some thoughts of my own. Fiction is a conversation between people who don’t exist. I’m not talking about quoted dialogue between … Continue reading →

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Romancing The Reader

Posted on June 10, 2018 by

I have written before about going on a date as an analogy for writing (perhaps because my success rate for both is near-zero, but let’s not dwell on that.)   My point is that a work of fiction is there to … Continue reading →

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Infinity Wars: Earth’s Mightiest Baking Show

Posted on May 4, 2018 by

Okay, this will be a critique of the film Avengers: Infinity Wars.  There will be spoilers. If you have not seen the film and intend to, read no further. Spoilers beyond this point. 

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part VI)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

VI. Beauty And Truth And All That Jazz Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V A successful metaesthetic formalism has scalar consistency between mechanical, narrative, and thematic elements. Generally when we speak of consistency in fiction we mean … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part V)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

V. In Which The Audience Is Invited To Participate Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV And now, at long last (I had planned this initially as three essays) we come to the point of the series. Or rather, … Continue reading →

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Metaesthetics viewed as a global discriminatory function for theorem sheafs (Part IV)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

IV. Aesthetics And Metaesthetics In Practice Part I Part II Part III Aesthetics is the study of the formalism of a means of communication–that is to say the relationship between what is being said to how you say it. Metaesthetics … Continue reading →

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