thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-06, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
P.S.: The need for a seed crystal to be "evocative but not overwhelming" may account for the popularity of high fantasy, Star Wars, superpowers, and even, to a lesser degree, Westerns: They all have some emotional content, but can be interpreted and tailored to all sorts of personal purposes.Which, inversely, implies that really personal and idiosyncratic setting ideas—what would make most of us go "whoo! so creative!"—are actually much harder to play with: the emotional content is already fully loaded, and there are fewer ways to bounce off of them.
So:
Cliches = useful!
