ideas of discribing settings
Mon, 2009-08-24 20:26
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ideas of discribing settings
could someone give me some tips of how to apporoch a good starting postion when writing sci-fi, fantasy and romance story beacuse am sick of doing the same start over and over again.
whats a good way of discribing a futuristic setting, and city buildings. please
thank you from bernice
maddan
"Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work. It was written by Mohammed, and Mohammed, as an Arab, had no reason to know that camels were especially Arabian; for him they were a part of reality, he had no reason to emphasize them; on the other hand, the first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have a surfeit of camel, caravans of camels, on every page ..."
-Jorge Luis Borges