Nayeem Rahman Chowdhury
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you think nonlinear story telling is better than chronologically written story? If yes then why?
Lois McMaster Bujold
It would depend entirely upon the story being told. Nonlinear worked well for Catch-22, evoking the chaos and absurdity of war and ending in a climax of revelation. The Lord of the Rings, while linear, was written in omniscient, which allowed some temporal flex as needed. Most of my work (all, come to think) is third-person-personal, past-tense, and chronological, following the point-of-view characters and allowing the reader to learn things as they do. Really, "better" is not a useful word in criticism, unless it includes the information, "Better for what?"
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
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Mickey
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Heading to Dublin for WorldCon 2019 tomorrow with questions all planned for your kaffeeklatsch, only to discover you won't be there! So glad to see there's an alternative that you're active on, so I can ask my questions here instead. Since I'm character-limited, I'll split them into multiples. First question: do you have a page where you publish your con schedule, or does one have to dig through your blog?
Andy Lopez
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
A question about the Five Gods world: I would assume that each soul is taken up by one God and one God alone. Has there ever been a case of a soul being given special honors by more than one God? I can think of a man who once bore the miracles for two different Gods, and was the cause of a restoration of something significant to a third. I can picture those funerary rights as being far from the norm.
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