Ballard concrete island5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() You can work outside of the standard narrative approach and do surrealism or minimalism or even just wild inward-oriented musings if you can keep them fascinated enough and make it somehow satisfying. I think you need to give them enough of a storyline sso they don't just say "What the heck is this garbage?" and check out, or you have to fascinate them somehow if you don't want an actual storyline. I think that's key in making stories from dreams (this stuff really is on topic if the topic is how to approach writing dream stories that readers will like). Now that said, there is a huge difference between closing a few gaps and leaving massive parts missing. I have no diea what's inside my phone or how to fix it, I just know to push the buttons. It's almost as if the characters were primitives and that's the way they thought about the devices. Many of the ships had a 'doctor' that would heal wounds and injuries by sealing the patient in a thick cocoon of foam, but she never even came close to explaining the technology. Andre Norton used to write about high-tech futuristic machines and she'd refer to them simply by what they do, a crawler, a flitter, a needler gun or a blaster. Le them imagine what some of the characters look like, or what the technology is that powers the spacecraft. ![]() In other words leave some things to their imagination. From what I gather, the science says viewers of various types of artwork appreciate and can interact more with the piece if they have to 'close a few gaps'. ![]()
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