Timeline for How to avoid overdoing deconstructive tendencies in writing?
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| Jul 20, 2021 at 23:05 | comment | added | pevinkinel | Not worth a full answer but wanted to point out ways around two of your case studies: 1) In The Incredibles superheroes don't want to be known because they used to be famous and became very unpopular, so they willingly went into hiding for their own good. 2) Sometimes both parties want to uphold the same lie for different reasons, ie: the US kept saying the USSR was very powerful to justify their defence spendings when the USSR, whilst much weaker in terms of armament, were happy to go along with the US propaganda to seem much bigger than they actually were. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 18:06 | comment | added | user2352714 | @Manuki It is done. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 18:05 | history | edited | user2352714 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2021 at 17:27 | comment | added | user2352714 | @Kevin I think you have a point. It's not the deconstruction that is the problem, it's more the overt cynicism and pessimism when doing the deconstruction that is. I think that's a much better description of the problem than what I previously posted. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 22:19 | comment | added | Kevin | I feel obligated to point out that Undertale is an utterly ruthless deconstruction of RPG tropes, and is also one of the most hopeful and optimistic games I have ever played. Maybe try deconstructing cynical ideas instead of deconstructing idealistic ones? | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:14 | comment | added | user2352714 | @Carl-FredrikNybergBrodda Not claiming that I have some ability to do something well but rather the opposite: I fear being so incompetent it ends up being damaging by mistake. The concern isn't the harming of a genre but making a work which nit-picks its premise so much as its trying to tell the story the story itself becomes unenjoyable to read. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 19:57 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | I think you're seriously overestimating your ability to deconstruct things for others, or ruining their enjoyment. Saying that "the genre [of superhero films] hardly recovered" after Watchmen is laughed at in the face by e.g. the Avengers being the highest-grossing franchise of all time. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:07 | history | edited | user2352714 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 16:42 | answer | added | Ryan_L | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 14:57 | comment | added | AnoE | Your final paragraph confused me. Do you mean to say that the characters in your book are reflecting on errors in the content of the book itself? I'd certainly need an example to get your meaning. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 13:40 | answer | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 12:56 | answer | added | Spencer Barnes | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1417091866651238407 | ||
| Jul 19, 2021 at 11:55 | comment | added | Manuki | I think your question would benefit from a few examples of how you deconstruct in your stories. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 11:29 | answer | added | user51522 | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 5:23 | answer | added | DWKraus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 0:52 | answer | added | EDL | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 0:52 | history | edited | Mary | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 0:21 | history | asked | user2352714 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |