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Offline Yorick Brown

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #30 on: August 22, 2008, 11:46:24 PM »
There's nothing to think about. It makes NO sense unless you care to explain it
This great evil - where's it come from?
How'd it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #31 on: August 22, 2008, 11:53:26 PM »
Dude, its self-explanatory

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2008, 12:13:39 AM »
Obviously it isn't since I'm still confussed. Something tells me that you're not answering the question because you yourself have no idea about what you're talking about.
This great evil - where's it come from?
How'd it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2008, 12:39:50 AM »
If that's the way you feel then so be it. I could honestly care less.

Not trying to sound harsh.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #34 on: August 23, 2008, 12:42:00 AM »
OH. MY. GOD.

You still haven't answered the question! You're just skirting around it!

Forget it. I got all I need to know already.
This great evil - where's it come from?
How'd it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #35 on: August 23, 2008, 01:43:08 PM »
I'd appreciate it if you guys didn't start an off topic argument.

I'm assuming that what he meant by a sense of origin was that we got to seem more about the history of the character and how they came to be who they are.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #36 on: August 23, 2008, 03:49:02 PM »
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I'm assuming that what he meant by a sense of origin was that we got to see more about the history of the character and how they came to be who they are.

Why would we need to know any of that?

Best friends Jake and Marco and best friends Rachel and Cassie and new guy in school Tobias take a shortcut after a trip to the mall and meet an alien being who warns them of an invasion and grants them power to stall their progress.

Why did it have to be about fate and superbeings and destiny and all this other convoluted matter?
This great evil - where's it come from?
How'd it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #37 on: August 23, 2008, 03:55:37 PM »
Because otherwise it would have been quite a coincidence that of the 5 "random kids" who happened to walk by, one was the son of Visser One, one was Elfangor's son and another was some kind of space/time anomaly. Not to mention that the Andalite they rescued later happened to be Elfangor's brother.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if KA added in the involvement of the Ellimist in the "coincidental meeting" because some idiotic fans thought it was too coincidental!  ::)
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #38 on: August 23, 2008, 04:02:37 PM »
Why did it have to be about fate and superbeings and destiny and all this other convoluted matter?

*sighs* And it's because of opinions like this that people tell me I'll never get published because my stories are "too complex".

Fact is, some people like the more complex aspects of the story. We like Cassie being an anomaly, and Tobias being Elfangor's son, and the Ellimist and Crayak playing a sinister game. As is the nature of things, other people disagree, and that's perfectly valid. To each his own, and all that jazz. But just because some people don't like it, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the book. If you start taking out everything that some readers might not like, you wouldn't have anything left.

Writers need to write what they want, and what they think is interesting. If they start wondering "Well, some people might not like the supernatural aspect", and start flitering their ideas to fit the current market, they stiffle their creativity.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #39 on: August 23, 2008, 04:17:49 PM »
Well said. The most important thing to remember when writing is to write for yourself, for fun, not because you want to impress people or make money (most authors who do get published don't become rich enough to get by without another job).
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #40 on: August 23, 2008, 05:06:25 PM »
It makes sense that they get together through fate and Ellimist junk, but I could still easily believe it was just an accident. Their relationships allowed for the chance meeting.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #41 on: August 23, 2008, 05:18:10 PM »
I agree, I would have been happy with the way it worked out regardless of the Ellimist intervention.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #42 on: August 23, 2008, 05:19:08 PM »
I would've been happy even if they got together because of flying pigs.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #43 on: August 23, 2008, 05:20:28 PM »
I would've been happy even if they got together because of flying pigs.

 ??? ??? ???

I wouldn't!

... Unless the Ellimist sent the flying pigs?  ;)
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #44 on: August 23, 2008, 05:27:11 PM »
uh no. they just flew in from some continent that hasn't been discovered.