Post by account_disabled on Dec 4, 2023 5:56:05 GMT
I can't stand fantasy sagas anymore, I talked about it when I wrote about sagas and trilogies . I can't stand it anymore, my feeling is that I'm always reading the same story without ever seeing the end on the horizon. So I had fun – exaggerating a little, perhaps – by listing 10 reasons plus one why a writer should never write a saga. History becomes a cage : you find yourself forced into a single world with no escape. Let's take Terry Brooks: he entered the Shannara saga in 1977 and after almost 40 years he is still in there, locked up in the Four Lands with no possibility of escape. Let's take George Martin: he got involved in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga and after almost 20 years he is still locked up in Westeros.
The writing doesn't get better : why don't you experience other literary universes. If you always write the same things, about the same settings, about the same characters, your writing will also be caged, because it will have no way of being tested on other themes. The dictionary itself will suffer, because you will be able to draw on a limited database of words. Phone Number Data The more genres you try, the more your writing will strengthen. You risk the unfinished : don't you think you're eternal? You can die without finishing the story. Because a saga, let's put it bluntly, is a story and not a series of stories. There is a risk of leaving the reader high and dry. Do you know how nice it would be if one day someone allows themselves to finish your saga the way they want? Force the reader to follow you : to know all the developments.
The saga becomes a drug, but it's natural, when the reader finishes reading a novel he hasn't finished the story yet. You are forcing him into continuous apnea, into infinite tension and suspense which is certainly not good for his mental state. Make the reader spend a fortune to read just one story : if you read Martin in Italian, you find yourself like me who spent money on 9 books and in the end I read 4 instead, because Messer Mondadori broke the stories into two and even three parts. various novels. But in any case the reader spends a lot to ultimately read just one story: your beautiful saga. You stress the reader : he has to put up with your tricks to dilute a broth without flavor or consistency. My idea is that fantasy sagas are like The Bold and the Beautiful, a continuous stretching of the story with every possible obstacle to block the course of events. Actors who appear and disappear and then reappear as extras scattered here and there.
The writing doesn't get better : why don't you experience other literary universes. If you always write the same things, about the same settings, about the same characters, your writing will also be caged, because it will have no way of being tested on other themes. The dictionary itself will suffer, because you will be able to draw on a limited database of words. Phone Number Data The more genres you try, the more your writing will strengthen. You risk the unfinished : don't you think you're eternal? You can die without finishing the story. Because a saga, let's put it bluntly, is a story and not a series of stories. There is a risk of leaving the reader high and dry. Do you know how nice it would be if one day someone allows themselves to finish your saga the way they want? Force the reader to follow you : to know all the developments.
The saga becomes a drug, but it's natural, when the reader finishes reading a novel he hasn't finished the story yet. You are forcing him into continuous apnea, into infinite tension and suspense which is certainly not good for his mental state. Make the reader spend a fortune to read just one story : if you read Martin in Italian, you find yourself like me who spent money on 9 books and in the end I read 4 instead, because Messer Mondadori broke the stories into two and even three parts. various novels. But in any case the reader spends a lot to ultimately read just one story: your beautiful saga. You stress the reader : he has to put up with your tricks to dilute a broth without flavor or consistency. My idea is that fantasy sagas are like The Bold and the Beautiful, a continuous stretching of the story with every possible obstacle to block the course of events. Actors who appear and disappear and then reappear as extras scattered here and there.