thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-12, Vincent wrote:
Everybody realizes that what we're talking about here is premise, right?The principles that underlie the setting, be they "nobody really likes their job," "Imperial bureacracy is so vast that anyone who wants to get anything done just does it," or "people have free will, but moral predispositions are inherited," they're thematic statements waiting to happen. All you need is to test and prove/disprove them via a fit character in action.
Pastiche, then, is fiction that simply reiterates the principles, test, and proof of its source material.
