Re: ... romance?

From: Edo Andromedo <macsonic_at_rad.net.id>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 17:26:00 +0700

>>>I've not been very successful. Your idea
>>>of "romantic" will have the effect of confining your story to an audience=
 of people that
>>>share your definition, where such unnecessary restriction would not apply=
 if you merely
>>>leave romantic entanglements at the "flirting" or "anything's possible" s=
tage.
>>
>>Yeah, but if you stay in that stage for a very long time, the audience may=
 get a little ... upset.
>
>That *never* happens. Not once. Ever.

Yeah, but in these days, you never gonna know what is going to happen.

>When you start a series, it's like taking
>a trip on a large highway. There's all kinds of off-ramps you can take, bu=
t
>every time you do that and wind up on a side-road, the road becomes narrowe=
r.

Hmmm... Chance's famous shortcut?

>Each time you make a choice at the storyline "forks in the road" and reduce=
 the
>number of possibilities, the path becomes narrower and narrower the further=
 you
>get from the "highway". Pairing your characters off as love interests is=
 analogous to
>abandoning the "highway" altogether for the story equivalent of a deer-path=

Received on Mon May 27 1996 - 09:16:46 PDT