marjoramblues wrote:I got that you were:
'...genuinely interested in experimenting with it to figure out of it like a scientist... or in this case a literary theorist.'
So...are you now saying that you are 'figuring out' what literary theory or tool to use to 'figure out'...er...what exactly ?
You've lost me. To produce a story ?
Come on, Voice, spit it out. It's choking you. Pretend I'm gonna kill you if you don't tell me in 10 seconds flat.
Okay. The problem is that it's difficult to speak about it without having created concepts yet. I lack conceptualization to be able to abstract text and use it to create objects of study. For the most my interests have been more in the use of... well now I'll have to invent a new concept (neologism)... a "wave surge", that is, I'm interested in how you come about to raise the feelings of people in a text from any position of more informing writing to one of spectacularity, a feeling of meaning and mystic purposes and the like derived from a previously drier situating.
A Conceptualization:
Let me exemplify: given any story, a person needs a loading and a sudden offload in which for each step of the offload, the previously loaded information is caught down a tube of excitement. The loading process must contain a field of comfort that causes a person to emotionally attach themselves to the contents and characters of the story, depending on each of our individual preferences (usually differing slightly or drastically across the stages of our life) we will think differently of what comforts us.
The offloading must shake that same comfort zone either with terror, mystics, joys, romance, violence, surprise... it happens with either the promise/prospect of "shaking" or the actuality of it. I have a couple of other stories that are experiments in this regard (links here:
http://sdrv.ms/14xYVC9 and here:
http://sdrv.ms/11IRXZU).
Examples:
First link are three short examples of the beginning of stories. First one has a longer introduction with lots of descriptions before a more "please turn the next page"-ending, in other words it ends with the "promise" type of shaking. Second is also very descriptive but the whole description is a big shake with mystics before a soft briefly situating landing at the ending. The last one is again situating, slightly dry, before discarding itself to promise a greater tale elsewhere, therefore it shakes with surprise, and the uncertainty of whether the characters will return later.
The second link is part of a series of letters I sent to a woman called Mary as part of creating a story for her to see the inside of one of my fantasy realms, there I again shake with a lot of mystics and promise, however, the promise is in the beginning of the text and not in the ending, and the mystics as well, the ending is promising but also a bit of a soft landing.
