Greetings

[tiz]

 Hello everybody :)

I am a new convert of this trilogy :D 
Despite some anger towards the Author, I admit I am hooked to the characters (mostly to Vanyel and Stefen). I would like to write something about it, but since my interest in reading further works on Valdemar is rather low (She DID angered me <.<'), and I need some informations before writing, I am making some questions^^

1. About the Vrondi-net. How does it work, exactly? O.o I mean, sort of air-elemental who spy on mage inside Valdemar, ok. All the mages who aren't Heralds? Or all the mages who came from outside Valdemar? 

2. About the magic. As far as I can see, there is no way that somebody born with the mage-gift(s) to learn how to use it without guide, not only that but they are *always* unusable if not "untapped". Correct? °-°

Thank you all for your help!^^

(Yes, the fic I wish to write is, to begin with, a short story centered about the Vrondi-net. I DO feel it was a lot an Orwellian measure and quite a dark thing to do, and I would like to explore on that^^) 

Also, I want to thank Theme who pointed me there ^^ My thanks!



(I apologize for any mistake, I am Italian^^)

Comments

[pennie_dreadful]

Huh, well, the way I see it, the purpose (or one of the purposes) of creative writing is to make us feel things--manipulate our emotions, make us think, open our eyes to new ideas. When I am writing I am certainly trying--hoping--to manipulate reader's emotions.

Just to be clear, I am agreeing with you; my point isn't that manipulating the reader's emotions is bad in and of itself, it's manipulating them without a clear purpose. A perfect example: The gang rape. What purpose did it have? Did anything significant come of this? No. Not a damn thing.

[tiz]

Peraphs I explained myself badly ò.ò

It is the difference between pulling a guitar string and playing it.

A good story should "play the cord of your heart" so to speak. It shouldn't pull it to get an extreme reaction.
It is... overplayed. A good actor don't need to exagerate to pass a meaning. A subtle gesture is sufficient.

You get it with the rape. There was no reason save to make us all heartsick. And pretty much all of Vanyel story is like that.

We are saying the same thing, anyway :D It is ok to kill characters if the story demands it. But killing them off for angst value (or because you are bored of them, like Conan Doyle)is wrong. It is a cheap trick.

[pennie_dreadful]

I do believe we are on the same page :) That's a good analogy with the guitar string. I once said to thene that at one point, during the writing of one of my fics, I worried about making it too melodramatic, but then I realized nothing I wrote could be more melodramatic than the actual books. :|