Chuck Litka
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Commented on Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
I trust you and everyone else is having fun pondering space operas. I am. It seems, however that we may be over-thinking them. I'd say you could write any type of story you care to, on any scale, as long...
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Hadil Benu commented on
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
Oh, I can live with disappointment. So far this week: Literally Hitler Cthulhu / Old One G_D of the Many Faces (don't ask: new wild one that one) El-ahrairah, the nose wiggler Chrissie; now responsible for another one hunted and captured John (I think there was some confusion over movie clips there with cross-over Biblical texts) ~ You're asking the wrong questions anyhow. As demonstrated by the links. And I do have experience of the military: I'm conversing with a stalwart product of it! p.s. It's not a magic mirror, you have to know what you're looking for first. That's...
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DeMarquis commented on
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
Rather late to this party, sorry, but I've been busy writing a story for the past couple of months or so. I've created a rather large scale setting for the story to take place in, both in space and time-frame, so I've been reading the last couple of threads with intense interest. My setting includes tens of lightyears, hundreds of space ships, tens of thousands of people, and several centuries. There are political intrigues, wars, and aliens. But there is little high drama. I keep the focus in the characters and their problems, the big stuff is mostly going on...
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martin089 commented on
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
I just came across this: The monomyth: so incorrect it's dangerous Charlie and others mentiones a few problems with the mononmyth upthread (gender politics, how universal is it actually), the article linked goes into bit more dtail. Especially interesting for me was the part on initiation rites....
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Dirk Bruere commented on
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
Well, if the monomyth is only prevalent across Europe, the Middle East and Asia it is still massively pervasive...
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Bellinghman commented on
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
Yeah, but not universal, which was the premise....
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