Concept behind IF Art.
The same perception at different times...
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Re: Painting IF (or how do YOU create IF)
Author: Carl Klutzke
Date:1998/02/09
Forum: rec.arts.int-fiction
Philip Bartol wrote:
> Often times when they show you how to paint, you start with a rough
> sketch on a canvas, darken in some of the lines. Then you start applying
> the paint, blending and adding details untill the whole is done....
Art is art. I've considered the parallels between painting/drawing and
writing before. Probably any work of art must be created the way you describe.
I also find that good writing (and IF by extension) has parallels with
music. I don't know much about writing music, but I know it has themes and
different lines. It creates tension and releases it. It has a beginning and
a middle and an end. Both are artforms that are experienced serially, which
probably has a lot to do with the parallels.
I'm also willing to bet that IF has more in common with sculpture (another
art I don't know much about) than traditional fiction does. Not only is IF
serial, it's deep. In good IF you move around, change perspective.
Carl
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Re: Why so little Puzzleless IF?
Author:
[email protected] (Doeadeer3)
Date: 3/4/99
Forum: rec.arts.int-fiction
...Just as static fiction is one-dimension, IF is usually two-dimensional
(even in a story-puzzleless kind of IF...). I suppose that is a major
difference that I see between IF and static fiction that seems to get
overlooked a lot.
Usually more important in some kind of modeling IF (simulation, whatever)
-- I don't think one-dimensional fiction authors have to think this way at
all...
For me it is like the difference between creating a painting and a sculpture.
One is one-dimensional, meant to be viewed straight on, one is two-dimensional,
meant to be walked around and even touched. Both require skills, but they
are DIFFERENT skills.
That was my point about IF, it is two-dimensional. Characters are meant to
be "walked around" viewed from more than a straight-on flat-on-the-page
perspective -- maybe talked to, interacted with in some way, hit, kissed,
queried, whatever. Scenery is meant to be looked at more than straight-on.
The real world may be modeled or simulated in some way... This is what I
think is DISTINCTLY interesting about IF, that makes it QUITE different
from static fiction. It's why I tend to object when people mention writing
IF as being the same as writing fiction (or very similar).
They AREN'T...
Doe :-)
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