tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post8490855093828859916..comments2023-08-28T20:55:37.738+08:00Comments on Satima's Blogspot: Psychological Spec-ficSatima Flavellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-74972782776378839582007-02-07T21:10:00.000+09:002007-02-07T21:10:00.000+09:00Hi Satima
Just checking this out to see if it wor...Hi Satima<br /><br />Just checking this out to see if it works.<br /><br />Love simone xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-14668956228421306152007-01-16T16:52:00.000+09:002007-01-16T16:52:00.000+09:00She's got a serious following among the visually i...She's got a serious following among the visually impaired, has e! Maybe if you get going on that Zimmerian story you'll attract the elderly in droves.<br /><br />Now, what specialised readership should I aim at? Must sleep on that one...Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-1127633413789137492007-01-16T14:54:00.000+09:002007-01-16T14:54:00.000+09:00Apparently eye conditions are popular too, if you ...Apparently eye conditions are popular too, if you look at <a href="http://matociquala.livejournal.com/">eBear's blog.</a><br /><br />Or maybe the discussion about chix in fantasy has killed it. :pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-18432230755842249932007-01-15T18:39:00.000+09:002007-01-15T18:39:00.000+09:00Well said, Ruv. I was hoping to get some discussio...Well said, Ruv. I was hoping to get some discussion going on this but the silence is blinding.<br /><br />Just what does get people writing to blogs? Flimmering got 'em in and so did mince pies - no pattern there!:-)Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-17752303253805821002007-01-13T16:19:00.000+09:002007-01-13T16:19:00.000+09:00Thanks for picking this up, Satima. I'll be tracki...Thanks for picking this up, Satima. I'll be tracking it!<br /><br />Fiction has many jobs. It entertains, it informs and provokes us, it soothes and placates us, it conjures sentiment just so that we can feel things more strongly, and gives us safe places to rest. But it doesn't do all those things at once, and so the aesthetics of style have to vary by intent.<br /><br />Kids love speculative stories just because they're <i>different</i>. If you're story-telling to children, then sometimes the wilder and more disconnected, the better! If you manage to slip in a moral or some useful information too, then good on you, but kids may not care if you don't.<br /><br />As adults - especially adults beleaguered by information and stress - I think that our attention-spans are strained. We like fiction to placate us, entertain us and conjure sentiment, but we're very critical, very cynical and so very hard to reach.<br /><br />The tighter and better integrated the speculative premises, the less we feel manipulated, and the more we trust the author and the inner truth of the work. The less integrated it is, the more it looks like advertising and the quicker our bs-filters reject it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com