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Dec. 12th, 2017 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI am in really ridiculous territory when I look at a draft and ask myself, "Is this totally implausible within the cosmology/world building of Zelazny's Amber books?" I hadn't actually thought that was a border anyone could approach.
Then I realized that I put that line in different places when writing fic versus creating an Amber Diceless game. Corwin really could have been a talking bear, right? (It's an old internet argument about what happens if one accepts the idea that Corwin might have lied or omitted things in his story. If any bit of it isn't 100% true, then he very easily could be a talking bear. We'd have no way to know.)
I must be very, very tired because I just had the impulse to figure out what happens if I write something where Corwin actually is a talking bear... Would that change anything at all? I suppose that the sword fights and horseback riding all become less plausible...
Either this story works, or I just took a cannonball off a plot cliff. I really can't tell (I'm pretty sure which side Scott would come down on, but he'd be doing it for characterization reasons because he thinks that 'extreme measures' aren't common in the setting. I'm almost 100% certain that he's thinking of the tabletop game rather than the novels.)
Then I realized that I put that line in different places when writing fic versus creating an Amber Diceless game. Corwin really could have been a talking bear, right? (It's an old internet argument about what happens if one accepts the idea that Corwin might have lied or omitted things in his story. If any bit of it isn't 100% true, then he very easily could be a talking bear. We'd have no way to know.)
I must be very, very tired because I just had the impulse to figure out what happens if I write something where Corwin actually is a talking bear... Would that change anything at all? I suppose that the sword fights and horseback riding all become less plausible...
Either this story works, or I just took a cannonball off a plot cliff. I really can't tell (I'm pretty sure which side Scott would come down on, but he'd be doing it for characterization reasons because he thinks that 'extreme measures' aren't common in the setting. I'm almost 100% certain that he's thinking of the tabletop game rather than the novels.)
