Note: This is a paper on baptismal symbolism written prior to this site’s genesis, and it’s long enough to require partition. Part Two will be here; the full version will be here at the end of the month. Sources and
So, last week I went over three categories of worldbuilding problems (irremediable, unremedied, and inherent) and four types of wounds they can inflict on a story (to the setting, the plot, the characters, or the theology). Today we’re going to
Worldbuilding, no matter how you cut it, is a difficult task, at least if you’re actually trying to do it right. Sometimes you feel like you have to become an expert in a hundred different fields at once; sometimes, you’re
UPDATE: I’ve revisited this topic in more detail and with more accuracy here. Go there instead, please. ‘Death of the author’ is a fairly grim name for a somewhat controversial approach to interpretation. Whether fortunately or unfortunately, it does not