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I can't figure out how to make the posts in this blog have a title... nor can I make my images or videos properly fit... I'm no good if a program is not completely user friendly.
Sometimes it's ok to just go along with the story. Do you ever catch yourself trying to figure out what's going to happen in advance of a story line of a book or movie (or show, whatever)? I don't intentionally go into a story trying to figure it all out at the beginning but sometimes some item of informaton will be placed in the story to give you a nudge one way or another and so you start to wonder if the writers are trying to fool you and it becomes a game.
I've been following the Fables graphic novels by Bill Willingham and his writing is riddled with such sport... at least, I perceive it that way.
Sometimes, though, it's fun to just go along with the story as they're showing it to you. For example, in the book I've just finished, the main character, Jack (of beanstalk climbing, candle jumping, and basically any fairy tale involving a character named Jack, fame) is caught by an anti-fable brigade and while incarcerated he rally's the other prisoners for a jail break. We discover that the warden-type character knows about the impending escape attempt because he has a spy, and the story guides you to believe that it is a certain character... so, in that situation, I would question the writers motives and be challenged to do some detective-like deducing myself and figure it out before the characters themselves were aware.
I kind of did that this time... but I also tried to just go along with the story and be surprised by what ends up happening.
If you are at all into graphic novels I highly recommend getting the Fables comix. They are so incredibly awesome and fun to read. Jack is a spin off, off shoot? It was inspired by the Fables series no doubt and begins when Jack leaves the Fables community. (Fables are fairy tale creatures like in Shrek). It seems like the Fables writers possibly had to make an entire Jack side-series because his adventures were so grand that they needed more time to tell than they could give him during the main Fables story... who knows... now I have to go dig up some interviews and see if I can find out what happened.
Go buy, "Fables: Legends in Exile" TODAY. That's the first one.
Oh! I just realized that I should use the image thingy that blogger has in the tool bar... duh!
I can't figure out how to make the posts in this blog have a title... nor can I make my images or videos properly fit... I'm no good if a program is not completely user friendly.
Sometimes it's ok to just go along with the story. Do you ever catch yourself trying to figure out what's going to happen in advance of a story line of a book or movie (or show, whatever)? I don't intentionally go into a story trying to figure it all out at the beginning but sometimes some item of informaton will be placed in the story to give you a nudge one way or another and so you start to wonder if the writers are trying to fool you and it becomes a game.
I've been following the Fables graphic novels by Bill Willingham and his writing is riddled with such sport... at least, I perceive it that way.
Sometimes, though, it's fun to just go along with the story as they're showing it to you. For example, in the book I've just finished, the main character, Jack (of beanstalk climbing, candle jumping, and basically any fairy tale involving a character named Jack, fame) is caught by an anti-fable brigade and while incarcerated he rally's the other prisoners for a jail break. We discover that the warden-type character knows about the impending escape attempt because he has a spy, and the story guides you to believe that it is a certain character... so, in that situation, I would question the writers motives and be challenged to do some detective-like deducing myself and figure it out before the characters themselves were aware.
I kind of did that this time... but I also tried to just go along with the story and be surprised by what ends up happening.
If you are at all into graphic novels I highly recommend getting the Fables comix. They are so incredibly awesome and fun to read. Jack is a spin off, off shoot? It was inspired by the Fables series no doubt and begins when Jack leaves the Fables community. (Fables are fairy tale creatures like in Shrek). It seems like the Fables writers possibly had to make an entire Jack side-series because his adventures were so grand that they needed more time to tell than they could give him during the main Fables story... who knows... now I have to go dig up some interviews and see if I can find out what happened.
Go buy, "Fables: Legends in Exile" TODAY. That's the first one.
Oh! I just realized that I should use the image thingy that blogger has in the tool bar... duh!
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Seriously, though, Fables has majorly impacted me. Love it.
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