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Splitting Stories Between Books

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

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book series, complete story, Harry Potter, Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel, split stories, star trek relaunch, Twilight saga, Wheel of Time

A fascinating and utterly annoy trend I have recently noticed in books, and in fairness, movies, is the propensity to split up complete stories into multiple segments. The most recent and popular results of this fetish are the finales of the Harry Potter and Twilight series, respectively having their final novels split in two for cash grabs, because, let’s be honest, there’s not enough plot in either book to make the argument for splitting these books up. Definitely the same argument for the Hobbit. Continue reading →

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Best Stories: 2013 Edition

27 Friday Dec 2013

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Ano Hana, Audrey Niffenegger, Battlestar Galactica, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Harry Potter, Her Fearful Symmetry, Hickman's avengers, Mindless Eating, nate silver, Roslin, the signal and the noise, top 10 list

It’s the end of the year. I suppose that means I should post an obligatory section on best books. But, since I love all sorts of world building and story structure, I’m going to expand that to movies and comics. Basically, what were the top stories that I read this year and, obviously, why. In no particular order, because, that’s unfair, subjective, and pointless, let’s get started.

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A History of the World

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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backstory, creation, creative origins, creative process, creative writing, fantasy, fantasy genre, fantasy history, fantasy novel, fiction, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, story ideas, world building

Yes, this is Saturday and not Friday, but I’m still awake so it’s Friday to me. Woo!

This is a rather difficult position to exist in. See, in many fantasy novels, the core cast of characters and protagonists are still fundamentally human. Sure, there may be dragons and magic and werewolves, but in the world tends to be innately relatable.  Lord of the Rings was about humans rising,  Harry Potter is about a human boy who meets centaurs and elves and other magical creatures. All of which makes a certain amount of sense, since humans are the center of their own worlds, there wouldn’t be a time most would consider them not the inherent good guys or core cast.

The world that the Tears of the Phoenix inhabit, that’s kind of different. The humans are not the central species. Well, that’s not entirely true. Stein is an Islander (see human) and is a main protagonist. Rather, I mean that this series does not extol the virtues of being human as a paragon.

Okay, now that my little clarification is out of the way, this is the history of the world. Much of this will never see the light of the page, and if it does, there’s a very good chance it’s a character discussing the matter so they’ll get a lot of it wrong. Think of that as a parallel of King Arthur. We know so much, the essentials of the tail, yet the details, the historical accuracy remains lost. Probably, we’ll never know. Sometimes, the myth replaces the facts and that’s all that matters.

It begins shortly before the First Age.

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