Activity for Jason K
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #19036 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #19002 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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A: Why do Popular Fantasy Novels of Today Feature Teenagers? This is a variant of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. Adolescent characters are hardly new, Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, Jason of the Argonauts, Theseus (of minotaur slaying fame), and more recently the kids from Narnia, Garion from David Edding's Belgariad, arguably Frodo from LOTR, etc. These charac... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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A: Subplot with no established POV character present If you are basically giving exposition in these extra scenes, it is an opportunity to switch styles. Instead of yet another POV character or just omniscient narrated events, perhaps these scenes are written as an after action report, given as newspaper clippings, or some other manner that clearly dis... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |