Post by TheDayAfterYesterday on Jul 23, 2015 7:31:47 GMT -6
By dissecting the magic of books, maybe we can improve our skills in another field. Books and animations are two common mediums used in storytelling and I find them very similar to one another. Maybe to the point that they stand in correlation, not to say that a good writer can animate with equal skill and vice versa, but that both the writer and animator require a certain "mindset" in order to express their ideas. I don't know how to explain this "mindset", but I do know that the steps that both an animator and writer take are similar in process. An example of this could be in comparison between a book to a movie, while one of them expresses the story with more detail, they are both about the same story. Which would bring up the point of what limitations each medium has, but I digress.
There are many elements that make a book great such as the tone of the story, where it takes place, whether the ending is good or bad, etc.
What makes a book so great that you remember it for a prolonged period of time and come back to it, knowing how it starts and ends?
Almost like an addiction.
The book I'd read and consider great would be composed of a well-developed set of characters or even one in particular. The other things such as the how the story unravels and how the story ends come secondary. If this book went out of its way to introduce the characters in an inspiring matter, to which it drew a grey line between good and bad, that would be an achievement in it of itself. Knowing the characters would present me the opportunity of entering this world and predicting how they might react. Even if my guesses are wrong, it still creates the illusion that the this make-believe world is organic. While the entire story and how the book ends might contribute to how great it is, it's only till the end that you can actually evaluate whether the conclusion was satisfying. The relationship between the characters and story line are indirect, if the characters are good whilst the story is lacking, I'd still read it.
There are many elements that make a book great such as the tone of the story, where it takes place, whether the ending is good or bad, etc.
What makes a book so great that you remember it for a prolonged period of time and come back to it, knowing how it starts and ends?
Almost like an addiction.
The book I'd read and consider great would be composed of a well-developed set of characters or even one in particular. The other things such as the how the story unravels and how the story ends come secondary. If this book went out of its way to introduce the characters in an inspiring matter, to which it drew a grey line between good and bad, that would be an achievement in it of itself. Knowing the characters would present me the opportunity of entering this world and predicting how they might react. Even if my guesses are wrong, it still creates the illusion that the this make-believe world is organic. While the entire story and how the book ends might contribute to how great it is, it's only till the end that you can actually evaluate whether the conclusion was satisfying. The relationship between the characters and story line are indirect, if the characters are good whilst the story is lacking, I'd still read it.
