Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:26:21 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] More thoughts on Wright
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Well, I've started several of his short pieces... and it finally hit me what
he reminds me of: back in the seventies, PSFS, which *always* has a speaker or
panel (except for the election meeting), had Lyn Carter once. He spoke about
writing fantasy, and how you could have a character go into an inn, and order
the green wine of blurtigurt, which would flesh out your world, if you weren't
writing something as long as LotR. It was just a writing trick. A couple three
years later, I read his... was it Thongor the Barbarian? and in one book, he
did that so many times, he had fleshed out about 10,000 years of his world, in
side references. Can you say "overdid it", boys and grrlls?

That's what Wright's doing: either repetition (One Bright Star to Guide Them),
where he repeats the whole song and dance several times, *and* he throws in
all those references.

Not great writing....

mark