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  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #30 - October 18, 2013, 12:57 AM
    There is a lack of foreign tinted English fiction here. I really need to write something. What is the date. Two weeks. I have two weeks.
    My mother is coming, how I can get organized and write and take care of her? She is here for two weeks.
    Everything is two weeks.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #31 - October 18, 2013, 01:06 AM
    Everything forever will be two weeks. Write about why it is like that.
    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #32 - October 18, 2013, 01:11 AM
    How time keeps stretching? Love scifi, don't know if I can write it.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #33 - October 18, 2013, 01:14 AM
    I suppose something like they say -
    Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

    The other plans are always two weeks away in your case, next year for me.
    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #34 - October 18, 2013, 01:15 AM
    Dune is one of my favourite books of all time, and Frank Herbert one of my fave writers, but I don't really have anything to add to the questions you asked.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #35 - October 18, 2013, 01:18 AM
    Would you adam and eve it!
    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #36 - October 18, 2013, 01:40 AM
    Quote from: Ishina on October 18, 2013, 01:15 AM
    Dune is one of my favourite books of all time, and Frank Herbert one of my fave writers, but I don't really have anything to add to the questions you asked.


    Thanks for trying! Any thoughts on the original trilogy?
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #37 - October 18, 2013, 01:48 AM
    Not at 2:45 am. You'll have to make do with some thoughts I made earlier...

    [Frank Herbert] evokes a sense of place and 'elsewhere' in such lifelike beauty. You are living and breathing the air of his universe, hearing the sounds, smelling the aromas. He doesn't waste time with lengthy exposition. He just opens the door into another land, complete with foreign words and concepts that might not become clear until much later. This puts some readers off. Some readers like to know the background information, like to have jargon explained as soon as its introduced; What the hell is a Kwizatz Haderach? Who the hell are the Bene Gesserit? But his exposition comes organically, through action, drama, dialogue of the characters as they talk off-hand, as though you're eavesdropping on a completely alien world and catching a glimpse of daily life there. I like that. It teases and tantalises me rather than spoon feeds me. Treats me like an adult rather than a child.

    Fantasy authors tend to meander and get bogged down with the exposition when conveying a story. Contemporary writers tend to indulge in themselves and too much. But writers like Smith and Herbert write like a movie edit. Lean and mean. Only scenes that add something essential to the story threads. Just enough to give solid details, to spur the imagination, and plenty of room for the reader to fill in with their own colour and creativity.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Frank Herbert's Dune NOT Kevin Herbert's, please
     Reply #38 - October 18, 2013, 01:50 AM
    You nailed it. I agree completely.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
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