Well, it’s taken a while, but allumination is now officially in hiatus. This is largely because my laptop has blown up, and while my groovy little Asus EEE is fantastic for emails etc, it’s become a bit too wearing to think exclusively onto a 7.4 inch screen. So, for a week or so only (becauseContinue reading “A hiatus”
Category Archives: Pirates
A pirate’s life for me, Pt 2
Well, more on pirate narrative structures. Today, it’s Key Equipment and Supporting Characters, below. What interests me about this exercise is not so much the usefulness of better understanding pirate stories, but rather the way it reflects onto the construction of fiction in general. A story of any kind is an end product of aContinue reading “A pirate’s life for me, Pt 2”
A pirate’s life for me, Pt 1
Well, not much time to write today, so digging through the files I found my ‘how to build a pirate story’ document from a while back. Which set me thinking about how much narrative structure is pre-formed by subject matter in general… So, in honour of general piracy, here’s Part One, dealing with Subtext andContinue reading “A pirate’s life for me, Pt 1”