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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 12:51:28 GMT -5

Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Jan 4, 2010 12:51:28 GMT -5

So wait .... historical fiction? Does that include alternate history and historical fantasy? Like, if I wrote about "What if Germany won WW2?" or "The Cold War from the perspective of Zombie Churchill" does that count? Or does it have to be a fictional story that remains fully grounded in historical fact?

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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 12:51:33 GMT -5

Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 12:51:33 GMT -5

I was in ZOMGSRSLY complaining to my friends about my chosen topic. Mentioning that it'll probably end up as some fucking bad Twilight parody - when a friend pipped up (the dude animating my script, in fact)

Quote: "You'll never be as good as twilight, don't worry"

... thanks guys!

It was a Freudian slip, he admitted, but wow, vote of confidence from my friends already! *Cries!*

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Matteo ((Taed)) Admin Mostly Harmless Oh, I say! Posts: 23,339	AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:07:18 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Jan 4, 2010 13:07:18 GMT -5 Nah, Twilight isn't gothic at all. Dracula is gothic. You can do something like that. Or Edgar Allen Poe! It's really just a sort of romanticized horror isn't it?
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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:14:17 GMT -5

Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 13:14:17 GMT -5

Not entirely sure! Need to do home-work on it. I think it's mostly "Frankenstein." Love that cannot because of evil-undead-zombie-vampire-werewolf ... thing.

*Headdesk!*

... Twilight in some ways was "a love that cannot."

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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:19:48 GMT -5

Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Jan 4, 2010 13:19:48 GMT -5

No, no. I don't think that's the essence of it at all. It's more about aesthetics than content. Tone and style. As a genre, it was inspired by gothic architecture more than anything else.

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"He floated like a butterfly, and stung like a bee. I float like an eagle, and sting like an eagle with a scorpion in its mouth."
-Stephen Colbert

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
-Ford Prefect

"That which holds the image of Graham Norton becomes itself Graham Norton."

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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:27:13 GMT -5

Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 13:27:13 GMT -5

HA! Did you know that "Beauty and The Beast" is Gothic Fiction? According to Wiki it is! *Mind-boggles*

Think I'm getting over the panic and pain of it. Wouldn't be so hard if I had ever done a vampire story, or a romance! Got a few ideas floating to the surface. This is going to be interesting.

Sorry about your topic!

Saw it and felt really bad for you guys.

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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:30:42 GMT -5

Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Jan 4, 2010 13:30:42 GMT -5

Oh do a biological apocalypse. We never get to see that. It's always scorched earth and barren wasteland, so boring. Let's see some plants gone wild.

EDIT: I don't know what you guys are talking about, I think the topics are great.

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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:34:09 GMT -5

Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jan 4, 2010 13:34:09 GMT -5

Jan 4, 2010 13:30:42 GMT -5 Matteo ((Taed)) said:

Oh do a biological apocalypse. We never get to see that. It's always scorched earth and barren wasteland, so boring. Let's see some plants gone wild.

EDIT: I don't know what you guys are talking about, I think the topics are great.

I was thinking more of an apocalypse similar to Scourge overrunning...

Cept not WoW.

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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:35:47 GMT -5

Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 13:35:47 GMT -5

Jan 4, 2010 13:30:42 GMT -5 Matteo ((Taed)) said:

EDIT: I don't know what you guys are talking about, I think the topics are great.

It's not that it isn't great ... coz Gothic Fiction could be pretty awesome. All of the topics are very interesting and awesome.

It's that I've never done Gothic Fiction before and don't have the foggiest idea how to do it now! I love a good challenge - and this will be one.

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Matteo ((Taed)) Admin Mostly Harmless Oh, I say! Posts: 23,339	AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:41:57 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Jan 4, 2010 13:41:57 GMT -5 I just really want to know what the boundaries are for mine. How far can I take the "fiction" half of "historical fiction". Not that I don't love history, it's just that it limits my creativity somewhat.
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AWR Cup Discussion Thread Jan 4, 2010 13:46:38 GMT -5

Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jan 4, 2010 13:46:38 GMT -5

Jan 4, 2010 13:41:57 GMT -5 Matteo ((Taed)) said:

I just really want to know what the boundaries are for mine. How far can I take the "fiction" half of "historical fiction". Not that I don't love history, it's just that it limits my creativity somewhat.

I'm pretty sure you would cross the line at (x) riding dinosaurs.

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