Comments on: The Elder Gods http://greyduck.net/journal/1041 Looking For Quacks In The Pavement Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:50:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ginevra http://greyduck.net/journal/1041#comment-2231 Ginevra Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://greyduck.net/wptest/journal/1041#comment-2231 I was talking to a friend of mine who's a creative writing major, and she was telling me that one of the writing profs insists that all stories must have "yearning". If your characters don't yearn, if the story lacks yearning, then, in his opinion, it goes no where. <br> <br>Maybe that's what Eddings needs? <br> <br>Of course, if I tried to do yearning, it would come out as teenage angst, I'm afraid.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2231','Ginevra'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2231','Ginevra','I was talking to a friend of mine who\'s a creative writing major, and she was telling me that one of the writing profs insists that all stories must have \"yearning\". If your characters don\'t yearn, if the story lacks yearning, then, in his opinion, it goes no where.\r<br>\r<br>Maybe that\'s what Eddings needs?\r<br>\r<br>Of course, if I tried to do yearning, it would come out as teenage angst, I\'m afraid.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a creative writing major, and she was telling me that one of the writing profs insists that all stories must have “yearning”. If your characters don’t yearn, if the story lacks yearning, then, in his opinion, it goes no where.

Maybe that’s what Eddings needs?

Of course, if I tried to do yearning, it would come out as teenage angst, I’m afraid.

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]]> By: Mari http://greyduck.net/journal/1041#comment-2232 Mari Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://greyduck.net/wptest/journal/1041#comment-2232 After Althalus, I am surprised you even took the chance on Elder Gods :) <br> <br>Frankly, I am tired of Sephrenia/Polgara... They were OK until you realized that they were almost the same person... <br> <br>Of course, you know that Doug and I will be reading that book too... We're suckers :)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2232','Mari'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2232','Mari','After Althalus, I am surprised you even took the chance on Elder Gods :)\r<br>\r<br>Frankly, I am tired of Sephrenia\/Polgara... They were OK until you realized that they were almost the same person...\r<br>\r<br>Of course, you know that Doug and I will be reading that book too... We\'re suckers :)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> After Althalus, I am surprised you even took the chance on Elder Gods :)

Frankly, I am tired of Sephrenia/Polgara… They were OK until you realized that they were almost the same person…

Of course, you know that Doug and I will be reading that book too… We’re suckers :)

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