tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post4217987133233829096..comments2023-09-30T08:53:15.486-07:00Comments on Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog: Consequencelowenkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05198658136254028258noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-5114150388629083902008-09-22T11:42:00.000-07:002008-09-22T11:42:00.000-07:00I love this metaphor. I think that's the way I wr...I love this metaphor. I think that's the way I write, like dominoes falling, this action (description, dialog, sentence, word) leads to that one and on to the next. Sometime I wonder what would happen to the story if I changed the one small action. Sometimes I do. Sometimes it takes, sometimes I have to go back some 60 actions to start over.<BR/><BR/>And as for rules on other planets, since I am writing a Science Fiction novel, I would argue that the rule you bring up is a top notch one to carry into an alien world, to help us believe that it is a real world, just like this one, and maybe just not visible yet.Rowenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07146077261663557342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-20844064689602366922008-09-22T10:46:00.000-07:002008-09-22T10:46:00.000-07:00And yet another because of the first two. I always...And yet another because of the first two. I always love stories that when you get to the end, you feel as if you've journeyed from one story quite into another by the end, and you're left wondering what the next story is. I always have to go back and inspect that fist domino, because it is many times surprising how it relates to the last domino to fall, and all the dominos in between. But then, I have a fascination with catylizing events when it comes to story structure.Wild Irishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06155848340128070251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-81046748863680650172008-09-22T01:57:00.000-07:002008-09-22T01:57:00.000-07:00This is such an interesting topic - sometimes it f...This is such an interesting topic - sometimes it feels like writing is like composing (perhaps more so with poetry?) Rhythm, beats, melodies - answering riffs, the fall of a domino/beat seen from different perspectives. Maybe I'm mixing my references but it's why jazz has always appealed to me because it's like a conversation.Kate Lord Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00278515379867576350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-49376004859326859032008-09-21T20:09:00.000-07:002008-09-21T20:09:00.000-07:00Ack. I did it again. That isn't Lin up there. I...Ack. I did it again. That isn't Lin up there. It's me. Marta. Just so you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-29767846214903741232008-09-21T20:08:00.000-07:002008-09-21T20:08:00.000-07:00Okay, so a movie director may want the camera to p...Okay, so a movie director may want the camera to pull in tight (or whatever the lingo is in filmland) and the viewer will then see only that this thing on this side of the screen caused this things on the other to fall over--two dominoes. <BR/><BR/>Or the director can pull back and the viewer can see four dominoes fall. Or a hundred. How many dominoes do we need to see to get a sense that there really is a story here? And if it depends, on what does it depend?Martahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06743006906883363982noreply@blogger.com