{"id":3810,"date":"2010-03-10T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:30:21","slug":"wednesday-various-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juliette Wade on <a href=\"http:\/\/talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/how-much-description.html\">How much description?<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">My general rule for description (of people or places) is that you need to stick with the rule of relevance: if it&#8217;s relevant, describe. If it isn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t. It sounds simple, but evaluating the degree of relevance in any location is where the tricky part starts. There are three big kinds of criteria I generally use to assess this: point of view criteria, plot criteria, and story criteria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I get a <i>lot<\/i> of stories for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a> where I learn more about a character&#8217;s hair and eye color than a do about who they are or why they&#8217;re doing something. Most of the time, if it&#8217;s just window dressing, you can drop it. Writing <i>isn&#8217;t<\/i> a visual medium. You have the reader&#8217;s imagination to help you, and moreover will often have a <i>less<\/i> satisfying story if you don&#8217;t let it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I really like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=8704\">Warren Ellis&#8217; challenge to artists<\/a> to redesign Superman&#8230;as if the artists had never <i>heard<\/i> of Superman. <a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/comments.php?DiscussionID=7801\">Some of the results<\/a> are really interesting.<\/li>\n<li>Along a slightly similar route, <a href=\"http:\/\/hypolib.typepad.com\/the-hypothetical-library\/\">the Hypothetical Library<\/a>: &#8220;imaginary book covers designed for actual authors.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And along a <i>very<\/i> slightly similar route, John Seavey imagines a universe in which <a href=\"http:\/\/fraggmented.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/my-personal-star-wars-canon.html\">only the first <i>Star Wars<\/i> movie<\/a> is canonical.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, I just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancarroll.com\/blog1\/2010\/03\/carrollblog_33_4.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Carrollblog+%28The+Jonthan+Carroll+Blog%29\">this quote from Jonathan Carroll<\/a>, so I&#8217;m posting it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juliette Wade on How much description? My general rule for description (of people or places) is that you need to stick with the rule of relevance: if it&#8217;s relevant, describe. If it isn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t. It sounds simple, but evaluating the degree of relevance in any location is where the tricky part starts. There are three &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3810\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,16,20,14,10,12],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-movies","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}